seventy-sixth
Americanadjective
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next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
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being one of 76 equal parts.
noun
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a seventy-sixth part, especially of one (1/76).
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the seventy-sixth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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“This moment is real,” Sandra Oh informed the audience, at the top of the seventy-sixth annual Golden Globe Awards.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
On his seventy-sixth birthday, a month after Bell Pottinger’s collapse, Bell married Jacky Phillips.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
When in June, 1851, he returned to England and surrendered his office as Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West Indian squadron, the Earl of Dundonald was in his seventy-sixth year.
From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II by Dundonald, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, Earl of
Now, in his seventy-sixth year, the king was, indeed, sorely pressed with trouble.
From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving
What freshness and fecundity in the veteran poet who signalizes his seventy-sixth birthday by publishing the "Légende des Siècles"!
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
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