ninety-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 91 or XCI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Gas produces ninety-one percent of its energy, oil contributes nine percent and solar provides less than 0.01 percent.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
Picasso died, at the age of ninety-one, in 1973.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
Last week, Jeff Koons set the record for the world’s most expensive art work by a living artist—again—when his three-and-a-half-foot-high, stainless-steel “Rabbit” sold for ninety-one million dollars, at Christie’s.
From The New Yorker ● May 21, 2019
Those who do may take comfort in the fact that Koons won’t see a dime of those ninety-one million dollars.
From The New Yorker ● May 21, 2019
Pierce was about nineteen years old when she attended the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, and she was ninety-one when she became eligible to vote for the first time.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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