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ninety-ninth

[ nahyn-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninety-eighth; being the ordinal number for 99.
  2. being one of 99 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-ninth part, especially of one (1/99).
  2. the ninety-ninth member of a series.
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Example Sentences

“That was flown by the Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron all over Italy and North Africa.”

After the ninety-ninth verse of the song, Poppy stood up.

At 111th Street and Third Avenue, and on Ninety-ninth street, between First and Second, are scenes from the Garbage Offensive, in which activists halted traffic with a barricade of trash to protest the Sanitation Department’s neglect of the neighborhood.

De Rivera was especially strong in math and science, and she scored in the ninety-ninth percentile on a city-wide math examination.

He had aced the ACT and placed in the ninety-ninth percentile on the SAT.

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