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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Next up was a Kendal resident called Ben Dowman, who had devised a daylong challenge that combined ninety-six miles of biking through the Lake District with six miles of swimming, in four lakes.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
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
Martha Graham, who died in 1991, lived to ninety-six, and had gone on choreographing well into her nineties.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019
Liverpool might have narrowly lost the Premier League title to Manchester City, but it did so by scoring ninety-six points, the highest total ever by a second-place team.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2019
On the other side of the lobby door, ninety-six sidewalk lines away, is the first day of fifth grade.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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