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
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
Koch died in his seventy-sixth year, in the year 1813.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
She herself sat before her untouched breakfast tray and watched Ottillie lace her boots, while she dismally went over for the two hundred and seventy-sixth time every detail of the night before the last.
From A Woman's Will by I. H. (Isaac Henry) Caliga
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