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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number seventy-six, describing a person or thing in position number 76 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of seventy-six equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • At 2 p.m., Donovan died—a little more than a month after his seventy-sixth birthday.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • At 2 p.m., Donovan died—a little more than a month after his seventy-sixth birthday.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Demonstrations are tomorrow at noon on the seventy-sixth floor.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Call’s Review Forum 2009

  • IF graduating seventy-sixth out of a class of eighty-five students qualified as the top half.

    Sh*t My Vice-President Says Threshold Editions 2010

  • He answers, in his seventy-sixth letter, that several churches did not believe the sprinkled to be Christians; that, for his own part, he believes that they are so, but that they have infinitely less grace than those who have been thrice dipped, according to custom.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • René, always given to indulgence in sensuality and sexual pleasures, but always with regard for decorum, had shown, since his seventy-sixth year, a progressive loss of intelligence and increasing perversion of his moral sense.

    Case #1 « Jahsonic 2007

  • René, always given to indulgence in sensuality and sexual pleasures, but always with regard for decorum, had shown, since his seventy-sixth year, a progressive loss of intelligence and increasing perversion of his moral sense.

    06 « November « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

  • In 1911, in his seventy-sixth year, Adams had come to Panama for no other purpose than to see the construction in progress.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • In 1911, in his seventy-sixth year, Adams had come to Panama for no other purpose than to see the construction in progress.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • The wanderers, in answer, united their voices, and sent forth, in solemn modulation, the two first verses of the seventy-sixth

    Old Mortality 2004

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