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But if anyone there didn’t already know who I was, they surely noticed the forty armed guards surrounding me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

That changed when an international team returned to the site using modern technology unavailable to scientists forty years earlier.

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026

In our town, we’re told in the new LA28 announcement of the Cultural Olympiad: “It’s been forty years. Los Angeles is ready to do it again.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

There was no reason I couldn’t close the laptop for forty minutes.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

Mummies of forty other pharaohs and royals were found there too, and they were put into Egyptian museums.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Nasser Al-Dhafiri, a civil servant in his forties, described "immense psychological pressure" on ordinary people as the attacks sparked fears of electricity outages.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Confirmed traffic through the strait fell to just 10 ships Monday, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler, compared with levels in the thirties and forties early last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"I had gone to bed a bit late, but the air-raid sirens woke me up, leaving me feeling anxious," said Nawal Saad, a Bahraini civil servant in her forties.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Even though McDaniels is still in his forties, he has been working in the same system long enough that he seems to know instantly how to address any situation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Tante Jans, Mama’s older sister, had moved in with us when her husband died to spend, as she put it, “what few days remain to me,” though she was still only in her early forties.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom