sixty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 62 or LXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Two hundred and sixty-two agro and food-related PACs awarded nearly $27 million total to congressional campaigns in the 2024 election cycle.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024
Jan 2006: Three hundred and sixty-two Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge when pilgrims jostle to perform the haj stoning ritual.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2022
These gruff views were formed during the first part of Aristotle’s life, and we don’t know if they changed before he died, at the age of sixty-two.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
The median income of white households in Baltimore is around seventy thousand dollars a figure higher than the white national median, of sixty-two thousand dollars.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2019
“Besides, each of his tentacles has sixty-two razorlike barbs that have to be sharpened daily.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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