ninety-ninth
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-eighth; being the ordinal number for 99.
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being one of 99 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-ninth part, especially of one (1/99).
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the ninety-ninth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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He had aced the ACT and placed in the ninety-ninth percentile on the SAT.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
“We just named a star for Kirk Douglas, for his ninety-ninth birthday,” she said.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
But at every turn his reluctance and ambivalence was apparent: he was the ninety-ninth person in, warily eying the rock.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
It is also on the Modern Library’s list of the best one hundred novels of the twentieth century, in ninety-ninth place, between James Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” and Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2015
He fell in love with the fact that his Termites were at the absolute pinnacle of the intellectual scale—at the ninety-ninth percentile of the ninety-ninth percentile—without realizing how little that seemingly extraordinary fact meant.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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