ninety-eighth

[ nahyn-tee-eytth, -eyth ]

/ ˈnaɪn tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

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next after the ninety-seventh; being the ordinal number for 98.

being one of 98 equal parts.

a ninety-eighth part, especially of one (1/98).

the ninety-eighth member of a series.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
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Meryl Streep makes an eighth of what Justin Bieber does a year.
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Ninety percent of women waiters get harassed sexually, according to a recent study.
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Ninety minutes later, Scheunemann told the organizers of the ski club about the chairlift incident.
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There only be nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety pound here.
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His holy book says: There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
John of Damascus, an important Greek theologian of the eighth century, often cited by Thomas.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
In the eighth line we have “bells” seven times repeated in all—bells being taken in their utmost generality, viz., musical action.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
In the year five hundred and ninety-three, the Confraternity of La Misericordia was started in this city.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
On the eighth of the said month it was washed, and another small grain of gold obtained, of the same size as the preceding.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various