eighty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 81 or LXXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Which led him to Cary Grant, which led him to Michael Jackson, which led him back to the point that even Cary Grant wouldn’t have looked good in a bathing suit at age eighty-one.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
In Canada, “the toll was $100 million, and eighty-one dead.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
The next day, the same plane, with a hundred and eighty-one passengers and a new crew, took off from Jakarta.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
As a ball-turret gunner for the Resistance, he flew eighty-one missions over the Western Front.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
Less than four years before, in November 1956, Castro and a force of eighty-one rebels had sailed from Mexico to Cuba, determined to retake their homeland from a corrupt dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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