eighty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.
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being one of 88 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).
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the eighty-eighth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy’s president, arrived at 2:30 A.M., several hours before she was to announce the eighty-eighth annual Oscar nominations at a press conference.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
Some of these artists are regulars—this is Barry Blitt’s eighty-eighth New Yorker cover and Lorenzo Mattotti’s thirtieth.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
By then, Shoji had made up her mind that, in her eighty-eighth year, she would share her own account of what happened on the other side of the bomb.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014
My mother died, in her eighty-eighth year, in the summer of 1890.
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark
Done at the city of Washington, this 17th day of May, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom
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