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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber sixty-nine , describing a person or thing in position number69 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
sixty-nine equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Huntington discovered an unexpectedly large cluster of famous people born in June who died a couple of months shy of their sixty-ninth birthdays, and another implausibly large group born in February who died a month shy of their seventieth birthdays.
Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010
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The only U.S. man to meet the Olympic qualifying time that year finished sixty-ninth.
Young Runners Marc Bloom 2009
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In 1968, shortly after his sixty-ninth birthday, Seress committed suicide by jumping from the window of his apartment.
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Here's an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page.
The Page 69 Test Stephen Gallagher 2007
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Here's an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page.
Archive 2007-10-01 Stephen Gallagher 2007
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This was an animated speech from a man in his sixty-ninth year.
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Fisher retired on his sixty-ninth birthday, January 25, 1910.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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Then one to the first, then one to the sixty-ninth.
The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990
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