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fifteen
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fifteen
1. the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and five
2. a numeral, 15, XV, etc., representing this number
3. a rugby football team


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Before Davis' fifteen minutes of fame were through, reality began to catch up with him.
The media are so good at taking a word like "fascinating" and evacuating it of its definition until it now means "enjoyed fifteen minutes of fame and did nothing politically threatening.
First, Warhol's most famous maxim is the one about everyone on earth some day enjoying fifteen minutes of fame.
 
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