sixty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 68 or LXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by as much as sixty-seven percent, while particulate matter declined by up to sixty-eight percent compared with standard diesel fuel.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Gary Cunningham became a fishing buddy, working Crowley Lake for trout at sixty-eight hundred feet in the Eastern Sierra, and West hit the same spot with Johnson other times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
TRY IT : : 1.185 Write as a decimal: thirteen and sixty-eight thousandths.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
DiGregorio, sixty-eight, is the author of “Tuna Grading and Evaluation,” an industry standby.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2019
“I guess. I have five hundred and sixty-eight dollars in savings, so if the whole thing costs more than that, I’m going to have to get a second job.”
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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