seventy-first
Americanadjective
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next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
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being one of 71 equal parts.
noun
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a seventy-first part, especially of one (1/71).
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the seventy-first member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The Seventy-first Primetime Emmy Awards had no host—no comedian to shove the show along with backslaps of gab—and therefore it had no narrative center.
From The New Yorker
That day, investigators broke open the door of his mansion on East Seventy-first Street and searched the interior.
From The New Yorker
He sometimes still visited the mansion on East Seventy-first Street, but only to offer legal advice.
From The New Yorker
In New York, Epstein lived in one of the city’s largest private homes: a seven-story mansion on East Seventy-first Street, overlooking the Frick.
From The New Yorker
As I walk up Oglesby to the corner, there’s a palpable click of transition when I take a step that carries me beyond a hedge at the property line of the last house on the block and turn the corner onto Seventy-first Street.
From The New Yorker
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