twenty-sixth
Americanadjective
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next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
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being one of 26 equal parts.
noun
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twenty-sixths
plural
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a twenty-sixth part, especially of one (1/26).
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the twenty-sixth member of a series.
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The day of the meeting arrived, and we were led into Trump’s office, on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower, by his personal assistant, an elegant woman named Norma Foerderer.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2019
It was taken in 1988, on the set of the “Tonight Show,” during an episode marking the twenty-sixth anniversary of Johnny Carson’s run as host.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016
The Juneau shipping news noted the Infanta’s presence nearby on the twenty-sixth of June.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
Another long-jumper was Timmy Reyes, who bounded from 129th place up to a respectable twenty-sixth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hundred Years’ War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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