seventy-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 73 or LXXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In its ruling in the case of seventy-three Russian groups designated as "foreign agents", Europe's top human rights court said the law violated freedom of assembly and association.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
Two hundred seventy-three wins were augmented by 4,775 strikeouts, the most in history by a wide margin.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
But Ronstadt, now seventy-three, didn’t rest on her greatest hits, experimenting instead with a dizzying range of genres.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 1, 2019
Of the seventy-three books Democritus is said to have written, covering all of human knowledge, not a single work survives.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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