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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingseventy-two and precedingseventy-four .
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- adjective being three more than seventy
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Examples
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Nineteen seventy-three may have ushered in the age of détente, but I was out of tune with the times.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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The New York Times reported his age as seventy-three, while other newspapers gave it as sixty-eight.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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We were seventy-three but she looked seventy-five and I looked sixty-eight and we both knew it.
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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By the time the riot broke up, sixteen people had been hurt and seventy-three were arrested.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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We were seventy-three but she looked seventy-five and I looked sixty-eight and we both knew it.
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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The women range in age from nineteen to seventy-three.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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The New York Times reported his age as seventy-three, while other newspapers gave it as sixty-eight.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Nineteen seventy-three may have ushered in the age of détente, but I was out of tune with the times.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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By the time the riot broke up, sixteen people had been hurt and seventy-three were arrested.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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At seventy-three, my heavy-set father convinced me we could build it.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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