ninety-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 97 or XCVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Imagine being ninety-seven years old and transitioning to a new resident.
From Fox News ● Dec. 17, 2021
In fact, she has the best career free-throw-shooting percentage in W.N.B.A. and N.B.A. history; this season, she made more than ninety-seven per cent of her attempts.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2019
Gilot is ninety-seven now; she has been painting nearly as long as Picasso did, and is enjoying something of a revival.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
“Places that went ninety-seven per cent for Trump. Nobody had bothered to visit those people before. I learned so much. If you want to serve people, you gotta listen to them.”
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
Maybe I ought to have taken the ninety-seven cents?
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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