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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number sixty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 69 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of sixty-nine equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Huntington discovered an unexpectedly large cluster of famous people born in June who died a couple of months shy of their sixty-ninth birthdays, and another implausibly large group born in February who died a month shy of their seventieth birthdays.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • The only U.S. man to meet the Olympic qualifying time that year finished sixty-ninth.

    Young Runners Marc Bloom 2009

  • In 1968, shortly after his sixty-ninth birthday, Seress committed suicide by jumping from the window of his apartment.

    The Peculiar Life of Sundays 2008

  • Here's an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page.

    The Page 69 Test Stephen Gallagher 2007

  • Here's an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Stephen Gallagher 2007

  • This was an animated speech from a man in his sixty-ninth year.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • Fisher retired on his sixty-ninth birthday, January 25, 1910.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Then one to the first, then one to the sixty-ninth.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

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