ninety-sixth

[ nahyn-tee-siksth ]

/ ˈnaɪn tiˈsɪksθ /

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next after the ninety-fifth; being the ordinal number for 96.

being one of 96 equal parts.

a ninety-sixth part, especially of one (1/96).

the ninety-sixth member of a series.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rick would cut together five years worth of work, add the sixth, then recut six years worth of work, add the seventh, and so on.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange|Marlow Stern|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.
The Women Battling an Islamist Strongman|Christina Asquith|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We are currently in the sixth, which is predicted to be the worst, and, to make matters worse, we are the cause.
The Best Big Ideas Of 2014|William O’Connor|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Instead of our sixth iPhone we suddenly start thinking about our first Jitterbug.
Christmas Is the New Subprime|Doug McIntyre|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
His holy book says: There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The two-thirds objective should be used as a finder, while the one-sixth is reserved for examining details.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
They are easily seen with the one-sixth objective in the routine microscopic examination.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The sixth line is in these words: “Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme.”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)