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
At eighty-two, he rediscovered the joy of gefilte fish, which, as he noted, would usher him out of life as it had ushered him into it.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 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
He died in his sleep on July 26, 1926, at the age of eighty-two.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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