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thirty-eighth

American  
[thur-tee-eytth, -eyth] / ˈθɜr tiˈeɪtθ, -ˈeɪθ /

adjective

  1. next after the thirty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 38.

  2. being one of 38 equal parts.


noun

  1. a thirty-eighth part, especially of one (1/38).

  2. the thirty-eighth member of a series.

Example Sentences

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They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families.

From Literature

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

“I think I would still be inside if not for Parole Prep. This would’ve been my thirty-eighth year.”

From The New Yorker

In 2012, as she approached her thirty-eighth birthday, Irena, a single lawyer living in Warsaw, began researching fertility clinics with a friend.

From The New Yorker

Lebanon ranks a hundred and thirty-eighth out of a hundred and eighty nations in the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index, released by the global anti-corruption group Transparency International.

From The New Yorker