eighty-nine
Americannoun
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eighty-nines
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Jenkins had stopped doing this late last year, after the N.F.L. committed eighty-nine million dollars toward racial-justice causes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2018
Chen read some fan mail from a customer named Tookie, in Pasadena: “She’s eighty-nine years young, she chews NeuroGum every day, and she says it helps her stay awake during church.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
On December 9, 1917, the National Woman's Party hosted a dinner honoring the eighty-nine women who had served time in the District Jail or the Occoquan Workhouse.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Nothing much else under ninety, though; one or two eighty-nines, I believe, and an eighty-eight; better get limbered up a bit, Jack; it’s getting near our turn.
From The Carleton Case by Clark, Ellery H.
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