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.
Example Sentences
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They were the ones that had created the thirty-eighth parallel and separated families.
From Literature
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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
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