ninety-sixth

American  

[nahyn-tee-siksth] / ˈnaɪn tiˈsɪksθ /

adjective

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

2. being one of 96 equal parts.

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noun

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

2. the ninety-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

Overall they were in the ninety-sixth percentile financially.

From Literature

Beginning in the early eighties, so many new buildings went up on Broadway between Eighty-sixth Street and Ninety-sixth Street that for several years you couldn’t go more than two blocks at a time without having to walk under three blocks of scaffolding.

From The New Yorker

Anyone who moved here just a few years before I did can remember when the New Yorker was a single-screen theatre, and when Marty Reisman’s was on the other side of Ninety-sixth Street, where the Columbia is now.

From The New Yorker

“Tree doctors and surgeons of the Park Department are at work today patching up the wounds of the giant Norway maple planted in the churchyard at St. John’s Episcopal Church, at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Ninety-sixth Street, in the early ’40s by Robert E. Lee, who later in life became the famous commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies,” the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported.

From The New Yorker

The group caravanned north, to Ninety-sixth Street.

From The New Yorker