ninety-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 92 or XCII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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The largest mound, or the main temple, measures ninety-two feet high and is almost five hundred feet long at its base.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
As the trial of the remaining defendants approached, ninety-two witnesses turned against the prosecution, with some saying they feared for their lives; the defendants were acquitted.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
Charles is the longest-serving heir to the British throne, and will be the oldest début King of England, if he succeeds his mother, who is now ninety-two, when she finally, implausibly, passes on.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
Vecchio and her younger sister, Amanda, an actor who lives in London, were there when Hahn died in a New York hospital in 1997, at the age of ninety-two.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2017
There are ninety-two chemically distinct kinds of naturally occurring atoms.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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