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thirty-second

[thur-tee-sek-uhnd]

adjective

  1. next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.

  2. being one of 32 equal parts.



noun

  1. a thirty-second part, especially of one (1/32).

  2. the thirty-second member of a series.

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Italy brought infections and deaths down and currently has a death rate over the last seven days just one thirty-second that of the United States.

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“That’s two more owners taking a thirty-second share of media rights in perpetuity.”

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I spent New Year’s Eve, my thirty-second birthday, alone.

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Bennet’s two big campaign planks—separate, sweeping electoral- and climate-change plans—can be difficult to fit into one-minute answers and thirty-second rebuttals.

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Last week marked the thirty-second consecutive Saturday that the gilets jaunes have occupied roundabouts and blocked roads and clashed with police all over France, answering Macron’s project of individual mobility with collective obstruction.

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