ninety-eight

American  

[nahyn-tee-eyt] / ˈnaɪn tiˈeɪt /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 90 plus 8.

2. a symbol for this number, as 98 or XCVIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 98 in number.

Example Sentences

In 2018, this was one hundred and ninety-eight terawatt-hours, down from a 2010 peak of two hundred and thirty-four terawatt-hours.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023

So, 8, 165, 432, 098, 710 is named as eight trillion, one hundred sixty-five billion, four hundred thirty-two million, ninety-eight thousand, seven hundred ten.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Since Billiot was a child, the island has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile—a loss in area of more than ninety-eight per cent.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

Two years earlier, Lumberton had become the symbol of the devastation that Hurricane Matthew had wreaked on North Carolina, killing twenty-five people and damaging ninety-eight thousand homes across the state.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2018

Graduation was ninety-eight humid degrees, the sort of day when even the rare breeze feels like the fond approach of a hairy, panting animal.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen