seventy-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 79 or LXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Another record, for women age seventy-five to seventy-nine, which she set during the 2008 New York City Marathon, still stands.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 30, 2019
Senator Bernie Sanders is oldest at seventy-nine and based on what we know right now is in good health.
From MSNBC ● Apr. 15, 2019
“I’m the guy who saved the Starship Enterprise for seventy-nine weeks and ended up kissing James Spader on a patio.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018
Elliott has lost money in only two of its forty-one years of existence, and one dollar invested in the fund at its inception would now be worth a hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
I looked in my pocketbook and counted out a dollar bill and seventy-nine cents in dimes and nickels and pennies.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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