eighty-second
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-first; being the ordinal number for 82.
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being one of 82 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-second part, especially of one (1/82).
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the eighty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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Inside the building, an American flag lay draped over the late senator’s closed casket—it would have been his eighty-second birthday.
From The New Yorker
In the eighty-second minute, in a moment of poor judgment, the defender Jérôme Boateng earned his second yellow card and was dismissed from the field.
From The New Yorker
When she was fourteen she saw a boy on a bike playing chicken with a car at the corner of Eighty-Second Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.
From Literature
He was attached to Charlie Battery of the Eighty-Second Airborne Division and trained as an assistant gunner.
From Salon
The seminars took place in S.A.B.’s old studio at Broadway and Eighty-second Street, its last home before it moved to Lincoln Center, in 1969.
From The New Yorker
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