thirty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 34 or XXXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Under extreme assumptions, these emissions would change the global temperature by thirty-four one-thousands of one degree Celsius—an effect that would be undetectable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
The day will be even more special for my sister and me because our father will be there as well and it has been thirty-four years since he spent Christmas with us in Alabama.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
“Between Washington’s election and Lincoln’s,” Richards points out, “nineteen of the thirty-four Supreme Court appointees were slaveholders.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
Beginning with the election of 1792, presidential elections were to be held in the thirty-four days prior to the “first Wednesday in December.”
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
Now I was thirty-four, a grown woman, married and the mother of three daughters.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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