sixty-second
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-first; being the ordinal number for 62.
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being one of 62 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-second part, especially of one (1/62).
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the sixty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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If you give honeybees a vigorous sixty-second shaking, mimicking an attack on their hive, they can develop pessimistic cognitive biases: coming to expect the worst.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024
On Thursday night, the first commercial break consisted of a lone sixty-second ad for Coventry Direct, which helps older people cash out their life-insurance policies.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 7, 2017
Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015
Last week, on his sixty-second birthday, Bush travelled to New York, where Henry Kravis, the private-equity tycoon, threw him a party-cum-fundraiser.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 18, 2015
Then began a sixty-second countdown, with maybe a hundred voices jumping in by the end: “... nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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