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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingsixty and precedingsixty-two .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being one more than sixty
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Examples
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We have divided up their sixty-one years of “stuff.”
Lighten Up Peter Walsh 2011
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In the summer of 1997, Khan was sixty-one years old, still erect and handsome but growing fleshy from the banquet circuit and too much of his favorite food, fried chicken.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Its commander was Pierre-Paul de la Malgue, sieur de Marin, hard-bitten marine veteran of the wilderness, a gruff, quarrelsome, but energetic and capable officer despite his sixty-one years.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Its commander was Pierre-Paul de la Malgue, sieur de Marin, hard-bitten marine veteran of the wilderness, a gruff, quarrelsome, but energetic and capable officer despite his sixty-one years.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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At sixty-one, she was, in her own words, “Seeing someone.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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At sixty-one, she was, in her own words, “Seeing someone.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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In 1975 there were still just thirty electoral democracies around the world; by 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet empire, there were sixty-one.3 The democratic wave continued for another decade, toppling one-party states across Africa and Asia.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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By 1848 there were five democracies, by 1900 there were thirteen, by 1960 there were thirty-six, and by 1990 there were sixty-one.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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A gigantic force some 215 divisions, including sixty-one armored divisions would be needed to defeat Nazi Germany.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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She writes, “Honored at the age of sixty-one as an indirect (and yet irrefutable) consequence of having failed at the age of twenty-two!”
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