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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingseventy-one and precedingseventy-three .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being two more than seventy
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Examples
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At seventy-two she was dying of ovarian cancer, and she was honest and open about this fact when I went to visit her for what would be the last time.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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Everyone falls into formation and marches with him for seventy-two feet to the stage.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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He's got stories that will curdle your milk for the next seventy-two boxes of Post-Toasties.
In Which I Discuss...Baltimore, YA, and Violence wendigomountain 2010
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Everyone falls into formation and marches with him for seventy-two feet to the stage.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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"In Emlyn Springs, no one is said to be truly dead until they've been sung to in this manner" (p. 139), in chorus, in shifts, for seventy-two hours.
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“Okay, it seems like most websites say they can live seventy-two hours in clothing and on furniture and floors.”
Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011
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That would have been sufficient cause for a seventy-two hour stay in a mental hospital.
June « 2009 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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That would have been sufficient cause for a seventy-two hour stay in a mental hospital.
The Future is Japanese. Really. « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Luke says that Christ spoke them on the occasion of choosing seventy-two disciples (Lk 10: 1).
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At seventy-two she was dying of ovarian cancer, and she was honest and open about this fact when I went to visit her for what would be the last time.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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