thirty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 34 or XXXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Under extreme assumptions, these emissions would change the global temperature by thirty-four one-thousands of one degree Celsius—an effect that would be undetectable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
In 2018, this was one hundred and ninety-eight terawatt-hours, down from a 2010 peak of two hundred and thirty-four terawatt-hours.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023
“Between Washington’s election and Lincoln’s,” Richards points out, “nineteen of the thirty-four Supreme Court appointees were slaveholders.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2022
That’s why John ran for Congress thirty-four years ago.
From Washington Times • Jul. 30, 2020
Washington went up to thirty-four now, Cal to a punishing thirty-eight.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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