sixty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 67 or LXVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by as much as sixty-seven percent, while particulate matter declined by up to sixty-eight percent compared with standard diesel fuel.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
But even the organization that unveiled the winning word -- pronounced "six-seven" and never "sixty-seven" -- admitted it was not exactly sure about its meaning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
State senates range in size from twenty members in Alaska to sixty-seven members in Minnesota.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
They are the progeny of sixty-seven farmers who purchased property in the area from a local reverend after the British wrested control of the Cape Colony from the Dutch.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
Why were we sixty-seven Indians being sent out this way, to some destination no one would tell us about?
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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