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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oldest in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

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    The numerical value of oldest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of oldest in a Sentence

  1. Gertrude Stein:

    The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

  2. David Martill:

    Only on Aldabra, which has the oldest palaeontological record of any oceanic island within the Indian Ocean region, is fossil evidence available that demonstrates the effects of changing sea levels on extinction and recolonization events, conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion.

  3. Carl June:

    But the reason now I think we can say this is a cure for Doug Olson -- from a scientific point of view -- is, I mean, these are the most mature, the oldest results available reported in the scientific literature, since they were the first treated.

  4. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

    Without the Jews, France is no longer France. It's the oldest community. They have been French citizens since the French revolution.

  5. White House:

    What's more, when the previous president followed through on his own promise to place a woman on Supreme Court, Senator Wicker said,' I have five granddaughters, the oldest one is 10. I think Justice Amy Coney Barrett will prove to be an inspiration to these five granddaughters and to my grown daughters,' we hope Senator Wicker will give President Biden's nominee the same consideration Senator Wicker gave to then-Judge Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

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