seventy-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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A day after turning seventy-one, Cher dominated headlines from the 2017 Billboard Music Awards by wearing a nearly identical, Mackie-designed version of the outfit while performing “If I Could Turn Back Time.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
Seven hundred and seventy-one distance learning students at Long Beach City College responded to surveys in the 2010–11 academic year.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
I’m just one person, who at seventy-one doesn’t feel as good as he did at sixty-one, and who is fairly certain that he’s going to feel even worse at eighty-one.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
Even now, at seventy-one, he teaches five classes a semester at a local university.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 25, 2019
Soon after that fishing trip, at the age of seventy-one, Gey learned he had the disease he’d spent his entire life trying to fight.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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