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twenty-ninth
[ twen-tee-nahynth, twuhn- ]
adjective
- next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
- being one of 29 equal parts.
noun
- a twenty-ninth part, especially of one (1/29).
- the twenty-ninth member of a series.
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This was the twenty-ninth consecutive judicial decision in the past 12 months holding that such are laws unconstitutional.
There is in existence what purports to be a letter from Napoleon to Murat, dated March twenty-ninth.
It was a warm, bright morning—that twenty-ninth of August in the year 1782.
At dawn on the twenty-ninth the English ships closed fairly in, and almost their last cartridge was spent ere the sun went down.
The commander who ruled over this fleet was a man still in his twenty-ninth year.
On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day after leaving Panama the lookout reported land.
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