ninety-second
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
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being one of 92 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-second part, especially of one (1/92).
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the ninety-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2019
Goodman told her, “I’m on my way to the ninety-second birthday of a patient whose knees I replaced eleven years ago.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
In minutes, Mount St. Helens went from being the fifth highest mountain in the state to the ninety-second!
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
This promised to be very interesting—the ninety-first prize being one of a thousand marks; the ninety-second, one of two thousand marks, and so on, up to the ninety-ninth, which was one of nine thousand.
From Ticket No. "9672" by Kendall, Laura E.
In his ninety-second year, he said to the writer, that for every page of any other reading he was sure he read ten of the Bible.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Pierson, Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan)
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