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seventy-second
[ sev-uhn-tee-sek-uhnd ]
adjective
- next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- being one of 72 equal parts.
noun
- a seventy-second part, especially of one (1/72).
- the seventy-second member of a series.
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He was sent to military headquarters, and then he was assigned to the Seventy-second Illinois Infantry.
These were the last words of this great man, who expired calmly a few hours subsequently, in the seventy-second year of his age.
At the Seventy-second street station of the subway Britz bade his companions good night.
There they were—the six men of the One Hundred and Seventy-second—three of them lying stiff and stark on benches, utterly drunk.
He died on the 29th of June, 1858, in the seventy-second year of his age.
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