eighty-third
Americanadjective
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next after the eighty-second; being the ordinal number for 83.
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being one of 83 equal parts.
noun
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an eighty-third part, especially of one (1/83).
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the eighty-third member of a series.
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Yet, beginning in his eighty-third year, he struck one more lode in the story of Donald Hall.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2018
I watched the semifinal—curled on the floor and wracked with hope—and I swear that Mandžukić didn’t touch the ball until the eighty-third minute.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 12, 2018
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, until Barack Obama brought her on as Attorney General, in 2015, making her the eighty-third person and the first African-American woman in the post.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
Who would recognize the lover of Madame Brillon in this russet picture that he paints of himself in his eighty-third year in a letter to her?
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Mr. William Nicol, F.R.S.E., died in Edinburgh on the 2d inst., in his eighty-third year.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
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