thirty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 33 or XXXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of thirty-three
C20: so called because it is played at thirty-three and a third revolutions per minute
Example Sentences
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He flew into the capital Nuuk on the family's 737 jet - Trump Force One - and stayed for four hours and thirty-three minutes, meeting some locals and offering only polite remarks.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
The exercise was just one minute and thirty-three seconds long.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
Earlier this month, thirty-three members of Congress urged DOL to seek strong and swift penalties against those responsible for child labor in the Hyundai supply chain.
From Reuters • Feb. 24, 2023
Eventually, recruitment efforts expanded to African Americans, women, Native Americans, and thirty-three thousand Japanese Americans.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
They began to pull in long, sweet, precisely synchronized strokes, rowing at a composed beat of thirty-three.
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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