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.
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
They made their burger sustainable: the Impossible Burger requires eighty-seven per cent less water and ninety-six per cent less land than a cowburger, and its production generates eighty-nine per cent less G.H.G. emissions.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019
Maar, who was born Henriette Theodora Markovitch, in 1907, and lived to be eighty-nine, was several sorts of artist in the decade or less that her photography had free rein.
From The New Yorker • May 21, 2019
On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2018
He had eighty-nine hundred hours of flight time, including thirty-two hundred hours of experience in jumbo jets.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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