seventy-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Military.
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a gun with a 75-millimeter caliber.
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the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
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adjective
Example Sentences
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Seven hundred and seventy-five Department of Homeland Security agents from U.S.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2025
One hundred seventy-five cookie jars that belonged to Andy Warhol.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
"As an older female, Shanidar Z would have been a repository of knowledge for her group, and here we are seventy-five thousand years later, learning from her still," Pomeroy said.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
At the age of seventy-five, he left this city and traveled to the land of Canaan in the eastern Mediterranean.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But Mr. Beach was pretty brave even though he was over seventy-five years old, and he went on praying for them anyway.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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