ninety-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 92 or XCII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The largest mound, or the main temple, measures ninety-two feet high and is almost five hundred feet long at its base.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Ambassador, she visited the embassies of a hundred and ninety-two member states.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
At the age of ninety-two, the high elder of European music has written a work that seems likely to stand not as an epilogue to his career but as its capstone.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2018
Charles is the longest-serving heir to the British throne, and will be the oldest début King of England, if he succeeds his mother, who is now ninety-two, when she finally, implausibly, passes on.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
Dozens of white prayer candles illuminated the stonework of its worship hall—one hundred ninety-two at a quick count—arranged on built-in shelves that reached all the way up to its vaulted ceilings.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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