seventy-six
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 6.
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a symbol for this number, as 76 or LXXVI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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At the start of the year Father John Fox died at the age of seventy-six and was buried on David’s farm near Hydesville.
From Literature
He crouched down in preparation, and then, from hops seventy through seventy-six, he rose up in the air just as she did and landed at the same time too.
From Literature
I imagined about two hundred seventy-six different things Claire might do to me and how I might protect myself from utter and complete degradation in all two hundred seventy-six cases.
From Literature
Leonor had once been tall and elegant; now, at seventy-six, she was bent.
From Literature
The United Nations was instrumental in the creation and recognition of the state of Israel some seventy-six years ago.
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