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eighty-two

[ey-tee-too]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 2.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 82 or LXXXII.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.



adjective

  1. amounting to 82 in number.

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“I write fiction to make sense of the world I have known in my eighty-two years of life,” Ms. Grumbach told the reference work Contemporary Novelists in 2000.

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Gerhardt Fischer, the man listed on Bobby’s birth certificate as his father, was living in Berlin, and at eighty-two he was not in good health.

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At eighty-two, he was as engaged in politics and as opinionated as ever.

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Two hundred eighty-two steps from the Temple of Lkossa, he counted.

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Or that he would threaten to surpass Sam Snead’s record total of eighty-two PGA Tour victories, which he tied in 2019.

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