seventy-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 74 or LXXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Those between eighteen and twenty-five are least likely to vote, while those sixty- five to seventy-four are most likely.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
“Seventy of seventy-four kids came back,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2020
The number 74,218,369 is written as seventy-four million, two hundred eighteen thousand, three hundred sixty-nine.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
But Boyan, who is now seventy-four, retired, and living in Burlington, Vermont, has made more donations than most—more than four thousand of them during the midterm elections alone.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2019
Students now attend classes in a new building, but the original school still stands as a museum and memorial to the seventy-four students and ten teachers who died there.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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