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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber seventy-eight , describing a person or thing in position number78 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
seventy-eight equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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Five years ago, right before her seventy-eighth birthday, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Lisa Solod Warren: Do I Want to Know I Will Come Down with Alzheimer's? Lisa Solod Warren 2010
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Then into Two World Trade Center at the Liberty Street entrance and up the elevator to the seventy-eighth floor, out again, across the lobby to another elevator, and off at the eightieth, and over to his desk for Mizuho Bank, where he was a computer systems operator.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Then into Two World Trade Center at the Liberty Street entrance and up the elevator to the seventy-eighth floor, out again, across the lobby to another elevator, and off at the eightieth, and over to his desk for Mizuho Bank, where he was a computer systems operator.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Two days after the funeral, Louisa and her father quietly celebrated their forty-fifth and seventy-eighth birthdays.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Then into Two World Trade Center at the Liberty Street entrance and up the elevator to the seventy-eighth floor, out again, across the lobby to another elevator, and off at the eightieth, and over to his desk for Mizuho Bank, where he was a computer systems operator.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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Then into Two World Trade Center at the Liberty Street entrance and up the elevator to the seventy-eighth floor, out again, across the lobby to another elevator, and off at the eightieth, and over to his desk for Mizuho Bank, where he was a computer systems operator.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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I quickly made my way down to the seventy-eighth floor and the main elevator banks.
Nikki Stone: A Story That I Guarantee Will Move You To Be Thankful Too 2009
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While he gave demonstrations of some of his earlier marvels - his exhibition of a radio-guided teleautomatic boat filled Madison Square Garden in 1898 - he became oracular in his later years and, for example, offered no proof of the potent "death-ray" that he announced in 1934, on his seventy-eighth birthday.
Tesla, Nikola 2008
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To-day, we are called to celebrate the seventy-eighth anniversary of American Independence.
Revolution Day 2008
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To-day, we are called to celebrate the seventy-eighth anniversary of American Independence.
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