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  • noun 75; the cardinal number after seventy-four and before seventy-six.

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  • adjective being five more than seventy

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Examples

  • "I am ashamed of this offer, folks, but nevertheless, I am offered seventy-five cents -- _seventy-five cents_, for this fine old instrument.

    The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

  • When Steinem returned home that night, Knox recalled, she looked seventy-five, which is saying something, for Gloria to look her age.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • When Steinem returned home that night, Knox recalled, she looked seventy-five, which is saying something, for Gloria to look her age.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • When Steinem returned home that night, Knox recalled, she looked seventy-five, which is saying something, for Gloria to look her age.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • When Steinem returned home that night, Knox recalled, she looked seventy-five, which is saying something, for Gloria to look her age.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In its most recent term, October Term 2008, there were seventy-five decisions and twenty-three were decided by a 5–4 margin.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • About seventy-five people of various ages and ethnicities come forward and line up tentatively along the railing.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Someone groans, but it's not Dan John, who says, Who knew this is where I would end up, a seventy-five square foot room in the forest.

    THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY Chris Okum 2012

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