twenty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Memphis, Light, Gas and Water said it had repaired twenty-seven broken water mains since Saturday.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
The SPI’s Los Angeles chapter said last month it was “proud to accept the Community Hero Award for our twenty-seven years of service to the LGBTQIA2S community.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
This granite statue of a kneeling Pharaoh Hatshepsut, carved in the fifteenth century BCE and originally painted, measures just over twenty-seven inches high.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
I'd start with a small, manageable story: one hand has twenty-seven bones, split into three types—the carpals, the metacarpals, and the slippery phalanges.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2022
I’ve collected phones one hundred and twenty-seven times since school started.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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