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
On the 16th of January, in the above year, died Mr. Richard Clark, chamberlain of the City of London, in the ninety-second year of his age.
From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous
This venerable and hardy pioneer of civilisation emigrated to an estate three hundred miles west of the Mississippi, in his ninety-second year, because he found a population of ten to the square mile, inconveniently crowded!
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
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