sixty-fifth
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 65.
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being one of 65 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-fifth part, especially of one (1/65).
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the sixty-fifth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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How much will be in Adam’s account when he retires at his sixty-fifth birthday?
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
On April 26, 2007, three months after my sixty-fifth birthday, I did something special: I experienced zero gravity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2016
Lemony Snicket, leaned hard on gibes about the irrelevance of the book world and the tyranny of Amazon as the host of the sixty-fifth annual National Book Awards last night at Cipriani Wall Street.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2014
When Rockefeller died in 1937, his $1.4 billion fortune constituted one sixty-fifth of the gross national product, according to an analysis in 1996 by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther in their book “The Wealthy 100.”
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011
Just before Christmas in 1691, Katherine died; Robert Boyle followed her a week later, on 30 December, a month short of his sixty-fifth birthday.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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