thirty-three
noun
thir·ty-three
ˌthər-tē-ˈthrē 
1
: a number that is one more than 32 see Table of Numbers
2
: a microgroove phonograph record designed to be played at 33¹/₃ revolutions per minute
—usually written 33
thirty-three
adjective
thirty-three
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of thirty-three in a Sentence
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Before boarding the cruise ship SS Adventure, where thirty-three America’s Next Top Model hopefuls would be whittled down to thirteen, the contract the show had sent me seemed huge.
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Sarah Hartshorne
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
By 1957, the threshold of the 55% tax rate had risen to 10 million yen – thirty-three times higher.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The thirty-three year-old New York State assembly member posts in accordance with his age, putting out short-form videos on TikTok and Instagram that are composed but informal, with a sense of sprezzatura that remains perhaps the last symbol of authenticity on social media.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
The show drew thirty-three million viewers for a rating of 15.2, according to Nielsen.
—Marc Raimondi
june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The show would remain on the air for thirty-three years, a television record for a program of its kind.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Nineteen thousand, three hundred thirty-three feet.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle spin-off, LiveWire, sold just 33 (yes, thirty-three) electric motorcycles last quarter— more than a 70% drop from Q1 2024, which was also not a good quarter for the brand.
—William Roberson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Sarah Hartshorne
july 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
By 1957, the threshold of the 55% tax rate had risen to 10 million yen – thirty-three times higher.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The thirty-three year-old New York State assembly member posts in accordance with his age, putting out short-form videos on TikTok and Instagram that are composed but informal, with a sense of sprezzatura that remains perhaps the last symbol of authenticity on social media.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
The show drew thirty-three million viewers for a rating of 15.2, according to Nielsen.
—Marc Raimondi
june 25, Literary Hub, 25 June 2025
The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
The show would remain on the air for thirty-three years, a television record for a program of its kind.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Nineteen thousand, three hundred thirty-three feet.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle spin-off, LiveWire, sold just 33 (yes, thirty-three) electric motorcycles last quarter— more than a 70% drop from Q1 2024, which was also not a good quarter for the brand.
—William Roberson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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