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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But I don’t want to say, just because someone is seventy-nine, they can’t or shouldn’t run for President.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 10, 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
Finally, in 1983, it happened: the great old man expired, at the age of seventy-nine.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018
“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
When I talked to McKusick several years before his death in 2008, he was seventy-nine and still conducting research and training young scientists.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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