seventy-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 73 or LXXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In its ruling in the case of seventy-three Russian groups designated as "foreign agents", Europe's top human rights court said the law violated freedom of assembly and association.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
Two hundred seventy-three wins were augmented by 4,775 strikeouts, the most in history by a wide margin.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
A few minutes later, Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat from Ohio who, at seventy-three, is the longest-serving woman in the House of Representatives, arrived wearing a sea-foam jacket.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2019
The Beagle lifted anchor on December 27, 1831, with seventy-three sailors on board, clearing a gale and tacking southward toward Tenerife.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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