sixty-sixth
Americanadjective
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next after the sixty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 66.
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being one of 66 equal parts.
noun
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a sixty-sixth part, especially of one (1/66).
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the sixty-sixth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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At the start of the film, on his nine hundred and sixty-sixth day in deep space, he quietly confesses that “things have started to feel episodic.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2016
G.G.'s husband died of a heart attack on his sixty-sixth birthday and she started to lose track of things after that.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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“Rob Gennings, representing Canada, Level 82, who plays as a Fighter. He is ranked sixty-sixth in the world.”
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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Giovanni da Capistrano, vicar-general of the Observantine Franciscans, had commenced his career as an inquisitor in 1417; he was now in his sixty-sixth year, vigorous and implacable as ever.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
He was in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and had seen a great deal of service in India.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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