seventy-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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A day after turning seventy-one, Cher dominated headlines from the 2017 Billboard Music Awards by wearing a nearly identical, Mackie-designed version of the outfit while performing “If I Could Turn Back Time.”
From Salon • May 3, 2025
Seven hundred and seventy-one distance learning students at Long Beach City College responded to surveys in the 2010–11 academic year.
From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020
Gilberto Perez, who died in 2015, at the age of seventy-one, was one of the great scholars and theorists of the cinema.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 17, 2020
According to eBay, the listing for the two-hundred-and-fifty-page memoir was getting seventy-one views per hour before a seller named Lostabet received a winning bid.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 29, 2018
We didn’t want to skew the graph with new data, and so didn’t mention that Desdemona was actually seventy-one, not ninety-one, and that she always confused sevens with nines.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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