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
“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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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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I thought much of dear father on this his sixty-sixth birthday, and missed the little ceremony that always takes place on these occasions.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May
The twenty-ninth was my sixty-sixth birthday, and all my rooms were full of flowers, but Lilly had gone to Cornwall, and could not come, so there was a little shadow on it.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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