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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They made their burger sustainable: the Impossible Burger requires eighty-seven per cent less water and ninety-six per cent less land than a cowburger, and its production generates eighty-nine per cent less G.H.G. emissions.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
In California, after the removal of the religious exemption, the rate of vaccination rose, from ninety per cent to ninety-six per cent.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
Eventually, he was assigned to a site outside Cologne, where ninety-six shipping containers had been converted into housing for men.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 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
“Four thousand and ninety-six times as pretty! And now tell me—what’s making that frown between your eyebrows?”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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