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ninety-ninth
[ nahyn-tee-nahynth ]
adjective
- next after the ninety-eighth; being the ordinal number for 99.
- being one of 99 equal parts.
noun
- a ninety-ninth part, especially of one (1/99).
- the ninety-ninth member of a series.
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“Just arrived with a draft of a hundred men from the Hundred and Ninety-Ninth,” he added proudly.
This includes a considerable area in every state and territory west of the ninety-ninth degree of longitude.
It is said that one-half the world does not know how the other half lives, but not the ninety-ninth part knows how it dies.
For the ninety-ninth time I examined the packets of raisins, the bread, and the water bottles.
They form the ninety-ninth part of the rock in this quarter.
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