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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Ninety-second Street was “very far for a downtown boy like me,” said Mr. Wildin, who graduated from N.Y.U. with bachelor’s degrees in theater and sociology and is now the chief executive and co-founder of Vertage, a plant-based cheese company.
From New York Times
Launched in 2017, to celebrate the magazine’s ninety-second anniversary, the bot offered readers a daily dose of poetry on Twitter and Facebook Messenger, cycling through ninety-two poems that were chosen to represent every decade of our archive.
From The New Yorker
He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.
From The New Yorker
Ninety-second showers, unflushed loos and dirty cars are matters of pride in Cape Town homes, while some restaurants have completely shut off their bathroom taps, forcing customers to opt for hand sanitizer instead, and many public swimming pools are empty.
From BBC
Not long ago, Fay Ennis, a retired market-research executive who just celebrated her ninety-second birthday, was telling family members stories from her past, which turned into an occasion for bringing out a box of moody black-and-white photographs.
From The New Yorker
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