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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Harvard, which had been receiving around sixty-nine cents per dollar, would lose out on more than a hundred million dollars a year.
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Two hundred and sixty-nine of UNRWA’s staff members have been killed in Gaza — the largest loss of life among U.N. employees in any conflict, officials say.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
In February, 1996, two New Jersey Transit trains collided near Secaucus, killing three and seriously injuring sixty-nine.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
One poll suggests that sixty-nine per cent of Muslim voters supported his 2022 Presidential bid.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Two hundred and sixty-nine of UNRWA’s staff members have been killed in Gaza — the largest loss of life among U.N. employees in any conflict, officials say.
—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
In February, 1996, two New Jersey Transit trains collided near Secaucus, killing three and seriously injuring sixty-nine.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
One poll suggests that sixty-nine per cent of Muslim voters supported his 2022 Presidential bid.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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