eighty-nine
Americannoun
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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.
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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
I thought about all of this again when I learned that the movie producer Robert Evans had died, this past Saturday, at age eighty-nine, in his home in Beverly Hills.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2019
At eighty-nine, he was a bundle of maladies.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019
In hospice care with sinus cancer, he died in June, at eighty-nine, before his son could carry him to the painted bed.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018
Being eighty-nine years old, she’d had plenty of practice and was by far the cake champion of Cold Sassy.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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