eighty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 83 or LXXXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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She died in her home, in 2013, at the age of eighty-three, having never earned more than twenty thousand dollars a year.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2019
He’s eighty-three now, with thick white hair and eyebrows above a face at once deeply furrowed and surprisingly relaxed.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2018
Martinez finally had the gun working: eighty-eight, eighty-three, eighty-eight, seventy-seven.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018
Fatalities, it said, would increase, thirty-five thousand jobs would be lost annually, and societal costs could amount to eighty-three billion dollars.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2018
That first day alone, there were seven hundred and eighty-three people late to work because they had stopped to listen to Chester.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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