twenty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Muriel Spark’s protagonist—“she might be as young as twenty-nine or as old as thirty-six”—comes to us, at first, as a burlesque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
It said that twenty-nine members of staff based at the Peterlee site had been kept on to help with trading.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
Five hundred twenty-nine U.S. communities applied for the Commerce Department’s initial $500,000 planning awards, and observers expect similarly stiff competition for the NSF program.
From Science Magazine ● May 16, 2022
In all, twenty-nine acres in the heart of Kendall Square were earmarked for NASA.
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
Thomas Thistlewood was twenty-nine when he arrived in Jamaica in 1750.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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