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
Example Sentences
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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
Buttigieg is thirty-seven, just two years clear of the constitutional minimum for a President.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
An incubator is set way too high at thirty-seven degrees Celsius, which makes no sense for a defoliant to kill Sagan’s plant life for terra-forming.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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