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
Boone flourished several years after this meeting, in a vigorous old age, the Nestor of hunters and backwoodsmen; and died, full of sylvan honor and renown, in 1818, in his ninety-second year.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
Being a great classical scholar, he also read a great deal of Italian and Latin poetry, and addressed a Latin ode to his daughter-in-law Lady Charlotte Penrhyn when he was in his ninety-second year!
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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