forty-first

On the forty-first move, after five hours of play, with his heart slightly pounding, Bobby lifted his rook with his trembling right hand, quietly lowered the piece to the board, and said, “Mate!”

The Islamic Republic marks its forty-first anniversary next month.

This would be her forty-first week in a row of climate-striking.

But there is little so far to indicate that the Islamic Republic won’t be celebrating its forty-first anniversary next year, at its Interest Section near the White House.

Like the late forty-first President himself, it was a bit corny.