ninety-first
Americanadjective
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next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
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being one of 91 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-first part, especially of one (1/91).
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the ninety-first member of a series.
Example Sentences
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That he has done so in just his second year in the Senate—where he ranks ninety-first in seniority—is testimony to his extraordinary influence.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2014
At 11:00 at night on her ninety-first birthday—April 15, 1983—Corrie, in the phrase she had always used, “went home” at last.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Ninety days and ninety nights without a corpse, and on the ninety-first we wed?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
We then called all the boatmen together, with our native assistants, and read to them the ninety-first Psalm.
From A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor
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