thirty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 37 or XXXVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Feerick writes: "Despite vacancies totaling more than thirty-seven years, no serious effort was made to devise a means for filling a vice presidential vacancy until after the assassination of President Kennedy."
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2020
Year after year would slip away, until finally, at thirty-seven, he would enter night school along with a squad of newly naturalized Czechs, sponsored by labor unions.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
A longtime sufferer of heart disease, Cheney survived his first of five heart attacks when he was thirty-seven.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2020
A statistical analysis of Stand Your Ground cases in Florida, conducted by the political scientist Justin Murphy, looked at two hundred and thirty-seven incidents between 2005 and 2013.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
“I bet the Widow Cane could say which of the thirty-seven varieties of lilac it was. I’m sure a bunch would look nice in one of these jars.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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