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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He has been on federal death row for twenty-seven years.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
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
In 1884, at the age of twenty-seven, he moved to New York City, to be closer to the financial markets that pumped the lifeblood of the new industrial age.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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