forty
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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
“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
"They took away valuables -- my radio, my phone, and forty head of livestock" from the village, he said, not daring to name those responsible.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
Over roughly forty years, the direction of this research has shifted in notable ways.
From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2025
It should be easy to undo forty hours.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
