ninety-third
Americanadjective
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next after the ninety-second; being the ordinal number for 93.
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being one of 93 equal parts.
noun
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a ninety-third part, especially of one (1/93).
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the ninety-third member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The game was worthy of a last-gasp goal, and it duly came, in the ninety-third minute, when Raheem Sterling, a Manchester City forward, swept home a low cross and fifty-five thousand fans lost their minds.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2019
In a commemorative interview on his ninety-third birthday, in 2017, Robert Mugabe, who was President of Zimbabwe at the time, reflected on his new American counterpart.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 8, 2019
Also: a few months ago, on what would have been my father’s ninety-third birthday, I went with Nina to see his grave for the first time since his funeral, more than three years before.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
He meditates on The Meditations, “reading Marcus Aurelius for the ninety-third time.”
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2012
This is embodied in the famous ninety-third section of the Act, and originated in a desire to protect the Protestant minority in Lower Canada.
From The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart) Colquhoun
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