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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Like the seventy-sixth, Theresa May, Johnson has entered Downing Street at a time of acute national distress, elected by the members of the Conservative Party rather than by the population as a whole.
From The New Yorker
“This moment is real,” Sandra Oh informed the audience, at the top of the seventy-sixth annual Golden Globe Awards.
From The New Yorker
On a recent afternoon, I went to see the writer Dubravka Ugresic at an apartment on East Seventy-sixth Street, in Manhattan, which belongs to a friend of hers.
From The New Yorker
Karim Ansarifard, a substitute who had entered the match in the seventy-sixth minute, converted the shot.
From The New Yorker
On his seventy-sixth birthday, a month after Bell Pottinger’s collapse, Bell married Jacky Phillips.
From The New Yorker
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