thirty-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
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being one of 37 equal parts.
noun
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a thirty-seventh part, especially of one (1/37).
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the thirty-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Leaving the boys to run around in the stores with the security officer, we went to the thirty-seventh floor.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
I remember my first sight of Estée three years ago, when I went up to her office on the thirty-seventh floor of the General Motors Building to do a Tatler piece.
From MSNBC • Nov. 15, 2017
By and large, that is the subject of this book: the public policy that drove the most significant year of the thirty-seventh president’s first term.
From MSNBC • Jul. 29, 2014
Now, Mr. Gates’s net worth of $59 billion, according to the latest Forbes magazine ranking, is about one two hundred thirty-seventh of G.N.P., and would place him 12th on the 1996 list, after Henry Ford.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011
“This is the thirty-seventh time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this nation.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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