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
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.
From Literature
At eighty-two, he was as engaged in politics and as opinionated as ever.
From Literature
Two hundred eighty-two steps from the Temple of Lkossa, he counted.
From Literature
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
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