sixty-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 69.
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being one of 69 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-ninth part, especially of one (1/69).
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the sixty-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Though a few days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, he looked much younger.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
On February 19, 2016, his sixty-ninth birthday, Woodfox packed his belongings into garbage bags and put about a hundred letters in a cardboard box.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
On Friday, January 8th, his sixty-ninth birthday, David Bowie released his final, gorgeous album, “Blackstar”; I listened to it all that weekend, and couldn’t get it out of my head.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2016
It was September—the sixty-ninth day of a seventy-two-day shoot.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
Dressed in faded, threadbare GoreTex, a couple of months shy of his sixty-ninth birthday, Pete was a gangly, slightly stooped man who had returned to the high reaches of the Himalaya after a long absence.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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