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
Example Sentences
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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
Chayote from Costa Rica is on the shelves at ninety-one cents a pound.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2019
Wireless makes up ninety-one per cent of Verizon’s profits, and the landline portion of the company looks increasingly like what Wall Street likes to call a “legacy” asset.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2016
None of this would matter in ninety-one days.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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