eighty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Ford had set aside eighty-nine dollars out of her loan-refund check at the beginning of the semester for a cap and gown.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2018
In hospice care with sinus cancer, he died in June, at eighty-nine, before his son could carry him to the painted bed.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2018
On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2018
I dodder down to the station with Mom as if I’m eighty-nine.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Nothing much else under ninety, though; one or two eighty-nines, I believe, and an eighty-eight; better get limbered up a bit, Jack; it’s getting near our turn.
From The Carleton Case by Clark, Ellery H.
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