seventy-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Military.
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a gun with a 75-millimeter caliber.
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the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
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adjective
Example Sentences
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One hundred seventy-five cookie jars that belonged to Andy Warhol.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
"As an older female, Shanidar Z would have been a repository of knowledge for her group, and here we are seventy-five thousand years later, learning from her still," Pomeroy said.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Even half-gone, plants outweigh us seventy-five hundred to one.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 7, 2023
The outsize share of death now caused by an infectious disease could threaten a reversal of the gains we've made in public health over the last seventy-five years.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022
The exploding vein had given the monsters pause, but it wouldn’t be long before they remembered: Hey, wait, there’s seventy-five gazillion of us, and only two of them.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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