ninety-second
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
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being one of 92 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-second part, especially of one (1/92).
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the ninety-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2019
Goodman told her, “I’m on my way to the ninety-second birthday of a patient whose knees I replaced eleven years ago.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
In minutes, Mount St. Helens went from being the fifth highest mountain in the state to the ninety-second!
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Noah Webster, senior, died in his ninety-second year; Noah the son in his eighty-fifth; his two brothers lived for eighty years or more, and his two sisters for seventy.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
He was in the ninety-second year of his age, and this was the sixty-third year after his investiture; likewise he had been a Priest for above fifty-seven years.
From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.
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