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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingsixty-one and precedingsixty-three .
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- adjective being two more than sixty
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Examples
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Samuel Alito turned sixty; Clarence Thomas has been on the Court for eighteen years, but will be only sixty-two in 2010.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
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Ruth Lehrer, a New York City elementary school teacher, published her first personal essay at age sixty-two, after she retired.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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News reporter William Gunn Shepherd counted sixty-two people who died hitting the ground.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Jackie Presser died of lung cancer in 1988 at the age of sixty-two.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
Gibbon VII nwhyte 2009
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Mitchell, who was sixty-two years of age, and who offered no resistance to the gamekeeper.
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Jackie Presser died of lung cancer in 1988 at the age of sixty-two.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
Which of these films have you seen? nwhyte 2009
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"Aw, I understand, Cis!" she says, taking my mother in a tight embrace to comfort her over my father's former girlfriend, and a relationship that ended sixty-two years ago.
Charlie Carillo: That Look on Her Face Charlie Carillo 2011
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