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
Example Sentences
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That state bill refers to “law enforcement assisted diversion” twenty-seven times.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2023
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 suppose if I had been watching it more closely, I could have pulled it out at, what, the twenty-seven second mark?
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
Dex and Faris are there, along with the other twenty-seven men in my battle platoon, including Cyril, a barrel-shaped boy who hates taking orders but accepts mine readily, and Darien, who has fists like hammers.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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