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.
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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
Where was he on that 17th of December, which was the seventy-sixth day after his departure, and they had had no news of him?
From Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
It is not often that a man postpones to his seventy-sixth year, and then successfully executes, the crowning task of his life.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The Farewell, following the track taken in 1817 by the Neptune from Aberdeen, got up to the north of Spitzbergen as far as the seventy-sixth degree of latitude.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
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