ninety-six
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 6.
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a symbol for this number, as 96 or XCVI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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When Devlin passed away, aged ninety-six, in 2016, the Irish Times headline read “Blacksmith immortalized by Seamus Heaney has died.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019
Earlier this month, ninety-six per cent of the rank-and-file voted to authorize it.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2019
A hundred and ninety-six billion dollars is larger than the market value of BP; it dwarfs that of the coal companies or the frackers.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2019
In an instant, the ninety-six electrodes were in, like a soccer cleat going into soft earth.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018
“And one hundred and ninety-six years have passed.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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