sixty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 68.
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being one of 68 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-eighth part, especially of one (1/68).
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the sixty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The other was Bill Weld, a twenty-eight-year-old attorney from a Boston law firm, who at that point was still nearly two decades away from being elected the sixty-eighth governor of Massachusetts.
From The New Yorker
Talking to her took me back to what seemed like a very different time: when New York was my North Pole, a place of bracing discovery; when Hillary was still living in her old house on Beach Sixty-eighth Street, which was gutted by Hurricane Sandy; when you did something amazing, took a picture, and just put it in a box.
From The New Yorker
By the end of 2017, when he finally returned to competitive golf, he had tumbled to six hundred and sixty-eighth in world golf rankings.
From The New Yorker
Tonight we celebrate Lola's sixty-eighth birthday, although most people think she’s a lot younger.
From Literature
The last time I went to the Sixty-eighth Street Playhouse, the usher wouldn’t let me in with a bar of Hershey’s chocolate in my hand.
From The New Yorker
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