sixty-nine
noun
six·ty-nine
ˌsiks-tē-ˈnīn 
1
: a number that is one more than 68 see Table of Numbers
2
: mutual cunnilingus and fellatio : mutual fellatio : mutual cunnilingus
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The Latino population in Miami-Dade County exploded from fifty thousand, in 1960, to 1.8 million, in 2020—or from about five per cent of the area’s population as a whole to sixty-nine per cent.
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Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
The wallets associated with Satoshi are presumed to contain up to 1.1 million coins, for a total current value of about sixty-nine billion dollars.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Ahmed al-Jabari, a leader of the group’s military wing, told the newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners were collectively responsible for the deaths of five hundred and sixty-nine Israelis.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on July 30 announced the sixty-nine recipients of its 2024 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants, which total $3.3 million.
—News Desk, Artforum, 30 July 2024
The next year, the price reached one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars per pound, and soon topped two thousand.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
There are sixty-nine of them (plus two collectives) in the new installment.
—The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
O’Bannon is sixty-nine, and she was dressed in a gray-and-white T-shirt emblazoned with five-pointed stars, jeans, and running shoes.
—Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
Make the room-temperature standard sixty-nine degrees nationally.
—Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
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Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
The wallets associated with Satoshi are presumed to contain up to 1.1 million coins, for a total current value of about sixty-nine billion dollars.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Ahmed al-Jabari, a leader of the group’s military wing, told the newspaper Al-Hayat that the prisoners were collectively responsible for the deaths of five hundred and sixty-nine Israelis.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on July 30 announced the sixty-nine recipients of its 2024 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants, which total $3.3 million.
—News Desk, Artforum, 30 July 2024
The next year, the price reached one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars per pound, and soon topped two thousand.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
There are sixty-nine of them (plus two collectives) in the new installment.
—The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
O’Bannon is sixty-nine, and she was dressed in a gray-and-white T-shirt emblazoned with five-pointed stars, jeans, and running shoes.
—Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
Make the room-temperature standard sixty-nine degrees nationally.
—Meghana Indurti, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
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