ninety-six
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 6.
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a symbol for this number, as 96 or XCVI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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They made their burger sustainable: the Impossible Burger requires eighty-seven per cent less water and ninety-six per cent less land than a cowburger, and its production generates eighty-nine per cent less G.H.G. emissions.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
In the world of professional cybersecurity, it typically takes about a hundred and ninety-six days to identify a breach, and then another sixty-nine to contain it; the campers had four days.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 15, 2019
In an instant, the ninety-six electrodes were in, like a soccer cleat going into soft earth.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
They were tethered together by a cable of ninety-six gold wires, one for each electrode.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
“And one hundred and ninety-six years have passed.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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