thirty-eighth
Americanadjective
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next after the thirty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 38.
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being one of 38 equal parts.
noun
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a thirty-eighth part, especially of one (1/38).
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the thirty-eighth member of a series.
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On July 12, 1933, his thirty-eighth birthday, they put the final touches on Dymaxion Car #1.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022
A few folk have been getting carried away, human nature being what it is, but Carlo Ancelotti will know that the Spurs game was literally only a thirty-eighth of the league season.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
On the thirty-eighth move in the match’s second game, AlphaGo made a brilliantly creative play that surprised Lee Sedol, who took nearly ten minutes to respond.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2018
Which was in 2014, right around his thirty-eighth birthday, when Sam was given a diagnosis of Stage III-C stomach cancer.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 12, 2016
They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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