ninety-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 98 or XCVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In 2018, this was one hundred and ninety-eight terawatt-hours, down from a 2010 peak of two hundred and thirty-four terawatt-hours.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023
So, 8, 165, 432, 098, 710 is named as eight trillion, one hundred sixty-five billion, four hundred thirty-two million, ninety-eight thousand, seven hundred ten.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
According to a study by Reuters, the numbers of resettled applicants from those countries were reduced by ninety-eight per cent.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
O’Rourke seemed especially interested in the politics that had allowed ninety-eight per cent of immigrants into the country, but Sharry said that anti-immigrant sentiment had been intense all throughout the Ellis Island period.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 7, 2019
“Ninety-nine Raggedy Anns on the shelf; ninety-nine Raggedy Anns. If one of the dolls should happen to fall, ninety-eight Raggedy Anns on the shelf.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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