eighty-nine
Americannoun
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eighty-nines
plural
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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
Not even the death of her husband—also an avid daily runner—a few years ago, when he was eighty-nine, slowed her down.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 30, 2019
Sondheim, who will be eighty-nine next week, loves them both.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
At eighty-nine, he was a bundle of maladies.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
He never would have guessed that there were eighty-nine pages’ worth of things to say about pigeons.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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 Ellery H. Clark
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