Recent Examples on the WebGradually, the group began to take stylistic digressions, with the same sort of imaginative confidence that David Byrne and the Talking Heads had in the late seventies. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020 At 47, Soro is the youngest major politician in a country dominated by men well into their seventies, and his social-media savvy — 963,000 followers on Twitter — and penchant for bling resonate with a new generation of voters. Anthony Halpin, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020 Some of them were older than I, in their sixties and seventies. Geoffrey Owens, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2020 The decision to spend time in a remote location makes sense for the duke and duchess, who are both in their seventies and, as a result, at a . Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2020 Back in the sixties and seventies a boy could still run off to play alone during the idyllic era between rural-agrarian America, when kids worked the land, and today’s suburban-urban America, when kids embrace indoor entertainment.New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020 The seven people – four males and three females – were all family members in their thirties and seventies. The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020 The other remarkable gift to my mid-seventies was winning the Grammy for album of the year with Daft Punk. Katherine Turman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2019 The ages span from early twenties to mid-seventies, and the group turns out to be resoundingly Caucasian. Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
seventy, adjective, from Middle English, from Old English seofontig, short for hundseofontig, from hundseofontig, noun, group of seventy, from hund hundred + seofon seven + -tig group of ten; akin to Old English tīen ten