thirty-second
Americanadjective
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next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
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being one of 32 equal parts.
noun
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a thirty-second part, especially of one (1/32).
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the thirty-second member of a series.
Example Sentences
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“That’s two more owners taking a thirty-second share of media rights in perpetuity.”
From Washington Post • May 5, 2020
I spent New Year’s Eve, my thirty-second birthday, alone.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
The other is to scale back how much time and energy you spend trying to court your unfriendly neighbors and confining yourself to the occasional wave and thirty-second exchange of pleasantries.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2018
That person will share one eighth of those same variants with a first cousin, one thirty-second with a second cousin, and so on.
From Scientific American • Jul. 2, 2018
On the thirty-second day, the last of the grain and fodder.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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