ninety-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
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being one of 94 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-fourth part, especially of one (1/94).
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the ninety-fourth member of a series.
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In the artist’s ninety-fourth year, two institutions on opposite coasts are hosting modest presentations of her career, which began in fervor in 1960, more or less.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2019
This coming week, The New Yorker will be celebrating its ninety-fourth anniversary.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 17, 2019
He then opened the Book, and having given out the ninety-fourth psalm, we sang it with weeping souls; and during the prayer that followed there was much sobbing and lamentations, and an universal sorrow.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
Stevenson was born at the commencement of the century, and is therefore now, 1893, in his ninety-fourth year.
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Johnson Field
After the second series of concerts in New York, they went to Philadelphia, where Barnum had advertised the ninety-third and ninety-fourth concerts.
From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton
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