seventy-sixth

[ sev-uhn-tee-siksth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-fifth; being the ordinal number for 76.
2. being one of 76 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-sixth part, especially of one (1/76).
2. the seventy-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

Seven years after the death of Andrew Jackson—the last surviving president to have taken part in the American Revolution—Frederick Douglass was asked to give a speech to mark the seventy-sixth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1852.

From Literature

Like the seventy-sixth, Theresa May, Johnson has entered Downing Street at a time of acute national distress, elected by the members of the Conservative Party rather than by the population as a whole.

From The New Yorker

“This moment is real,” Sandra Oh informed the audience, at the top of the seventy-sixth annual Golden Globe Awards.

From The New Yorker

On a recent afternoon, I went to see the writer Dubravka Ugresic at an apartment on East Seventy-sixth Street, in Manhattan, which belongs to a friend of hers.

From The New Yorker

Karim Ansarifard, a substitute who had entered the match in the seventy-sixth minute, converted the shot.

From The New Yorker