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
Example Sentences
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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
Researchers at the University of Minnesota found fecal matter in sixty-nine per cent of pork and ninety-two per cent of poultry; Consumer Reports found it in a hundred per cent of ground beef.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 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
Claude Lanzmann, who died in July at the age of ninety-two, made the greatest documentary ever, “Shoah.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2018
The thermometer on the back porch stood at ninety-two, the carhouse shimmered faintly in the distance, and the giant twin chinaberry trees were deadly still.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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