eighty-fifth

[ ey-tee-fifth ]

/ ˈeɪ tiˈfɪfθ /

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next after the eighty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 85.

being one of 85 equal parts.

an eighty-fifth part, especially of one (1/85).

the eighty-fifth member of a series.

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

But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.
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The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
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He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
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Insult to injury, its $43 million gross was less than one-fifth of what Ted took in.
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As late as the fifth century, powerful aristocratic women took charge of the commemoration of the dead in Rome.
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It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
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After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In the next two days he re-wrote the twenty thousand, and on the fifth day he tore it into shreds and threw it to the winds.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux