eighty-seventh
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 87.
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being one of 87 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-seventh part, especially of one (1/87).
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the eighty-seventh member of a series.
Example Sentences
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But her shoulder has continued to cause her pain and trouble her serve, and she arrived in Flushing this week ranked eighty-seventh in the world.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2019
In the eighty-seventh minute, Divock Origi, one of the heroes of Liverpool’s comeback against Barcelona, scored with a precise and powerful shot into the corner of the Tottenham goal.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 2, 2019
“I’ve tried to move through this experience as my truest self,” Patricia Arquette said on the red carpet last night, before the eighty-seventh annual Academy Awards.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 2015
Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time."
From Time Magazine Archive
To make leaving easier, Anthony promised to come back for Stanton’s eighty-seventh birthday in November.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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