sixty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 62 or LXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Two hundred and sixty-two agro and food-related PACs awarded nearly $27 million total to congressional campaigns in the 2024 election cycle.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024
Jan 2006: Three hundred and sixty-two Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death at the eastern entrance of the Jamarat Bridge when pilgrims jostle to perform the haj stoning ritual.
From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2022
These gruff views were formed during the first part of Aristotle’s life, and we don’t know if they changed before he died, at the age of sixty-two.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
Mark Morris is only sixty-two, an age at which Martha Graham probably didn’t feel that she was mortal at all.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019
“Oo-oh!” said all the hundred and sixty-two simultaneously, as though they were looking at fireworks.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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