Sixty-two

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    being two more than sixty wordnet
Numeral
  1. 1
    The cardinal number immediately following sixty-one and preceding sixty-three.

    ""The guy that just left—what's he got in his lungs?" / "Well, I'm not very sure. But the two best candidates are uranium-233 and plutonium-239, one or both." / "They're in his bones too, aren't they?" / "Yeah, they're both boneseekers. And they've got half-lives of one hundred sixty-two thousand and twenty-four thousand years respectively. So they stay hot for a long time.""

Example

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"Those who choose to retire can do so as early as sixty-two, although starting to draw their Social Security distributions at that age would mean that the payments would be reduced by twenty percent."

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