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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following seventy-six and preceding seventy-eight.

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  • adjective being seven more than seventy

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Examples

  • There are always rumors that Justice Ginsburg, who is seventy-seven and has had health problems, might retire.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • It took one hundred seventy-seven rejections (façon de parler ...) before I had an inspiration: maybe this was the wrong path?

    Writing 2010

  • Struggling with his command while throwing seventy-seven pitches through the first four innings, the big left-hander finally found his groove and made life miserable for the Twins.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • "Bridge to Terabithia" won a Newbery Medal in nineteen seventy-seven.

    Ambassador for Young Spreads a Love of Books 2010

  • I, her ugly, fat daughter, watched her never-ending, romantic sagas, which she continued to rewrite and live throughout all seventy-seven of her years, unfold with amazement.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • In addition to an overwhelming majority of Democrats in both Houses, seventy-seven Republican Representatives voted for it and only eighteen against it and fifteen Republican Senators voted for it and only five against it.

    David O. Russell: FDR Said It All in 1936 -- Who Will Follow in His Steps Today? David O. Russell 2011

  • I, her ugly, fat daughter, watched her never-ending, romantic sagas, which she continued to rewrite and live throughout all seventy-seven of her years, unfold with amazement.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • It took one hundred seventy-seven rejections (façon de parler ...) before I had an inspiration: maybe this was the wrong path?

    avant-propos - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Struggling with his command while throwing seventy-seven pitches through the first four innings, the big left-hander finally found his groove and made life miserable for the Twins.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • It took one hundred seventy-seven rejections (façon de parler ...) before I had an inspiration: maybe this was the wrong path?

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

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