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seventy-third

[ sev-uhn-tee-thurd ]

adjective

  1. next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  2. being one of 73 equal parts.


noun

  1. a seventy-third part, especially of one (1/73).
  2. the seventy-third member of a series.
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Example Sentences

Bellistri had encouraged Denton to join him in the Thirteenth Precinct, in Manhattan, but Denton wanted to stay at the Seventy-third Precinct, in Brownsville.

This year, Bellistri, now seventy-three years old, made flyers, which he distributed at the Seventy-third and other precincts, urging people to go to the parole board’s Web site and send a letter opposing Dennis’s release at his next hearing.

Every year on July 24th, Bellistri sends flowers to the Seventy-third Precinct, and he stops in during roll call to speak to the officers about his friend.

She meets the artists and the staff in her apartment, on Seventy-third Street, and then struggles to find a hotel to house them all; she describes the shows as “conventions” for drag queens, occasions where the social and the professional overlap.

Although both were represented on Broadway this season, neither made an appearance at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night, where the seventy-third annual Tony Awards were presented.

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