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
“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
A new production of “Huguenots” at the Opéra—the first in eighty-two years—has affirmed the work’s elemental power.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
Fewer responses this time, eighty-two, organized by the date on which the Omnictionary page had been created.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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