eighty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 82 or LXXXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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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.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Or that he would threaten to surpass Sam Snead’s record total of eighty-two PGA Tour victories, which he tied in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
His new anthology, a six-volume set of eighty-two of his most significant profiles, titled “The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles,” was published on October 2nd.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2019
“We know Austin longs to walk free. Two thousand, two hundred and eighty-two days. Austin urgently needs to be free. Maybe soon.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018
At eighty-two, he was as engaged in politics and as opinionated as ever.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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