seventy-eight
noun
sev·en·ty-eight
ˌse-vən-tē-ˈāt 
ˌse-bᵊm-,
-dē-ˈāt
1
: a number that is one more than 77 see Table of Numbers
2
: a phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute
—usually written 78
seventy-eight
adjective
seventy-eight
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of seventy-eight in a Sentence
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The speed limit was fifty miles per hour; according to a Tulsa police officer, who pulled him over, Keith was going seventy-eight.
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Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The left won the most seats, at a hundred and seventy-eight, followed by Ensemble, Macron’s centrist alliance (a hundred and fifty), and then the far-right National Rally (a hundred and forty-two).
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
Joe Biden is eighty-one; Donald Trump is seventy-eight; half of the House and nearly three-quarters of the Senate was born before 1965.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
National Parks Are for Everyone The majority of national park visitors—roughly seventy-eight percent—are white?
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
The rain forest makes up seventy-eight per cent of Brazil’s landmass but contains less than fifteen per cent of its population.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
With the two major candidates set to be an aggregate age of a hundred and fifty-nine on Election Day—Biden will be eighty-one, Trump will be seventy-eight—age was always going to be a factor in the campaign.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
Even before Monday’s indictment, Trump was facing seventy-eight counts in three pending criminal cases against him—two federal cases filed by the special counsel Jack Smith and a New York criminal case being prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The left won the most seats, at a hundred and seventy-eight, followed by Ensemble, Macron’s centrist alliance (a hundred and fifty), and then the far-right National Rally (a hundred and forty-two).
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
Joe Biden is eighty-one; Donald Trump is seventy-eight; half of the House and nearly three-quarters of the Senate was born before 1965.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
National Parks Are for Everyone The majority of national park visitors—roughly seventy-eight percent—are white?
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
The rain forest makes up seventy-eight per cent of Brazil’s landmass but contains less than fifteen per cent of its population.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
With the two major candidates set to be an aggregate age of a hundred and fifty-nine on Election Day—Biden will be eighty-one, Trump will be seventy-eight—age was always going to be a factor in the campaign.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
Even before Monday’s indictment, Trump was facing seventy-eight counts in three pending criminal cases against him—two federal cases filed by the special counsel Jack Smith and a New York criminal case being prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
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“Seventy-eight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seventy-eight. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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