forty
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In 1976, scientists realized that γ Cas emits X-rays about forty times stronger than similar stars.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026
Birol told Australian media that at least forty energy assets across the region had been "severely or very severely damaged" in the conflict.
From Barron's • Mar. 23, 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
The premium attached to European defense plays in the current environment are reflected in a price-to-earnings multiple of almost forty times for 2026, more than double that of the overall market.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026
By the time Dad came back to help pack up shop and go home, I’d sold over my goal of forty cups.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
