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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following seventy-five and preceding seventy-seven.

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  • adjective being six more than seventy

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Examples

  • He died of heart failure in April 2007, at age seventy-six.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Frank Brancato, partner in the Licatese faction of the Cleveland Mafia, was seventy-six when he died of natural causes in 1973.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Its reflective light bathed him in quicksilver, a diminutive, stooped man of seventy-six years with a hoary beard falling to his belly but none on his head.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

  • On average, dead amphibians continue to float around for five days, dead reptiles for thirty-two days, dead mammals for fifty-six days, and dead birds for seventy-six days.81

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • For example, in 2009 Johnson & Johnson experienced its first annual sales decline in seventy-six years, yet its CEO, William Weldon, was nevertheless paid $22.8 million, in large part for making "difficult personnel decisions."

    Mark Engler: The Rich Can Already Call It a Year Mark Engler 2011

  • Frank Brancato, partner in the Licatese faction of the Cleveland Mafia, was seventy-six when he died of natural causes in 1973.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • On average, dead amphibians continue to float around for five days, dead reptiles for thirty-two days, dead mammals for fifty-six days, and dead birds for seventy-six days.81

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • On average, dead amphibians continue to float around for five days, dead reptiles for thirty-two days, dead mammals for fifty-six days, and dead birds for seventy-six days.81

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • He died of heart failure in April 2007, at age seventy-six.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Frank Brancato, partner in the Licatese faction of the Cleveland Mafia, was seventy-six when he died of natural causes in 1973.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

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