eighty-eighth

[ ey-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

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next after the eighty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 88.

being one of 88 equal parts.

an eighty-eighth part, especially of one (1/88).

the eighty-eighth member of a series.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
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On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama|Jeff Campagna|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year.
Justin Bieber Isn’t Even 21, Yet Makes More Money Than Meryl Streep|Amy Zimmerman|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“I will feel some justice has been done,” said White, now eighty-eight.
Bringing El Salvador Nun Killers to Justice|Raymond Bonner|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
John of Damascus, an important Greek theologian of the eighth century, often cited by Thomas.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
So, small as his force was, only one hundred and eighty, he determined to move out and attack Porter without delay.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
On the evening of September 17th he sent away his advance guard of two thousand men in eighty small boats.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
They led me to the largest wigwam of all; it contained fully eighty people.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various