ninety-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 99 or XCIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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"A researcher might be happy if one out of a hundred devices works for their first experiment, but a manufacturer might need ninety-nine out of a hundred devices to work," Stavis noted.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
“Four hundred and ninety-nine games later, the most important game is tonight.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight estimates that Greene has a ninety-nine percent chance of winning a second term.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
She says that, in recent years, artists have started demanding a share of the publishing "ninety-nine per cent of the time".
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2021
Five other prizes taken in the Redwyne Straights and along the Domish coast—three cogs, a galleas, and a galley— had brought their numbers to ninety-nine.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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