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
Example Sentences
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In a recent YouGov/HuffPost poll, eighty-three per cent of Democrats or Democratic-leaning respondents said they were satisfied with the 2020 field.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2019
“It’s about cities, where eighty-three per cent of the urban population—mainly black—resides on two per cent of the land.”
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
Posting bail in Tulsa County is often prohibitively expensive, and the pretrial detention rate is eighty-three per cent above the national average.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
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
In forty degrees, I sweat like iced tea in August and here I woke up this morning to eighty-three on the dial.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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