- a variation of 38.
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
The site encloses thirty-eight different mounds within a large earthen D-shaped rectangle.
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
She went on that way, silent hour after silent hour; she had done nothing else for thirty-eight evenings now, and each time, her ardor deepened, her thoughts became more pure.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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