ninety-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 98 or XCVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In 2018, this was one hundred and ninety-eight terawatt-hours, down from a 2010 peak of two hundred and thirty-four terawatt-hours.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
So, 8, 165, 432, 098, 710 is named as eight trillion, one hundred sixty-five billion, four hundred thirty-two million, ninety-eight thousand, seven hundred ten.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
According to a study by Reuters, the numbers of resettled applicants from those countries were reduced by ninety-eight per cent.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
Two years before, Hurricane Matthew had killed twenty-five people and damaged ninety-eight thousand homes across North Carolina.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018
Three hundred ninety-eight residents, out of the original population of 10,341, registered to return on the opening of Okuma, and fewer than 800 of the former population of 8,000 committed to return to Futaba.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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