threescore and ten

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threescore and ten

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  1. alternative Alternative form of three score and ten We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

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@misc{threescore_and_ten_2026,
  title = {threescore and ten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/threescore%20and%20ten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}