seventy-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 72 or LXXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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It has been seventy-two hours since the snow felland we are in the process of thawing out.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025
“One hundred seventy-two homes were destroyed, and 86. A chunk of Highway 2 as well.”
From Slate • May 28, 2022
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two people died of Covid.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2022
All the—at the time there were two thousand nine hundred seventy-two fatalities.
From MSNBC • Sep. 10, 2019
It may even be that those factors play a very subtle and complex role in increasing the odds of something happening to him in the next seventy-two hours.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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