sixty-fifth

[ siks-tee-fifth ]

/ ˈsɪks tiˈfɪfθ /

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next after the sixty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 65.

being one of 65 equal parts.

a sixty-fifth part, especially of one (1/65).

the sixty-fifth member of a series.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

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He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
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These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
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After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
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But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.
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At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.
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Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.
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