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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Based on satellite data, space-agency officials estimate that the number of forest fires is eighty-three per cent larger than last year.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 28, 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
About eighty-three per cent of inmates with a mental illness don’t have access to the treatment they need.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
“It ended eighty-three years, six months, and twenty-one days ago. It was a cherry-blossom day.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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