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
Slightly more than a thousand Extinction Rebellion activists, between the ages of nineteen and seventy-four, were arrested in eight days.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2019
At seventy-four miles an hour she graduated from a tropical storm to a hurricane.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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