thirty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 38 or XXXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Over the summer, word leaked out that Michael Jordan, at age thirty-eight, might come out of retirement for the second time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2023
At its height, the empire consisted of thirty-eight provinces, each expected to submit specific tribute to the imperial capitals.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“I always tell him. ’I am more intelligent because it took me no more than thirty-eight years to get to know you, it took you about fifty-something,’” she told the book’s authors.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022
Not two pages later, Slaughter acknowledges that in “the trial by press, thirty-eight out of thirty-eight media accounts found against us.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021
There were thirty-eight contestants; nineteen had already given their speeches that morning.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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