seventy-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
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being one of 77 equal parts.
noun
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a seventy-seventh part, especially of one (1/77).
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the seventy-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The contract was the seventy-seventh published by Football Leaks.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
We hear the commanding lieutenant of the department’s seventy-seventh division, who made the ill-fated decision to retreat from the corner of Seventy-first and Normandie, which allowed the rioting to spread.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 28, 2017
Last Thursday, his seventy-seventh day in office, President Donald Trump pressed the cruise-missile button, sending fifty-nine Tomahawks to strike an airbase in Syria.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2017
Today, on the morning of my seventy-seventh birthday, I decided to make one last visit to the Imperial War Museum library in Lambeth.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The Earl himself soon followed them to the grave, a month short of his seventy-seventh birthday.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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