eighty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 83 or LXXXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Of the hundred patients with leukemia who were transplanted in those early years, eighty-three died within the first several months,” Fred Appelbaum, a former student of Thomas’s, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
“It’s about cities, where eighty-three per cent of the urban population—mainly black—resides on two per cent of the land.”
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
His aunt, who is eighty-three, has owned it since his uncle died; the uncle got a third of the ownership in 1957, when the previous owner retired.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018
He’s eighty-three now, with thick white hair and eyebrows above a face at once deeply furrowed and surprisingly relaxed.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
At the time of the divorce the Blooms had been eighty-three thousand dollars in the hole; there followed bankruptcy declarations and a substantial loss of valuable suburban property.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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