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 ● Nov. 25, 2019
In the sixty-eighth minute, Croatia’s Ivan Perišić scored, and Holden was stirred to a simple, evocative sentence: “That goal has given them energy and life and belief.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2018
John Kerry, the sixty-eighth Secretary of State of the United States, was born to a temperament of wintry rectitude.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015
Berlin, who was born in 1936, in Juneau, Alaska, and died in 2004, on her sixty-eighth birthday, based many of her stories on events in her own life.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2015
Tonight we celebrate Lola's sixty-eighth birthday, although most people think she’s a lot younger.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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