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
He had attained his ninety-second year, when tidings of the surrender of Yorktown wounded the national pride of the old cavalier to the quick, and snapped the attenuated thread of his existence.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
King David, in the ninety-second psalm, says that the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: 'Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church
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