Definitions
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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber ninety-eight , describing a person or thing in position number98 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
ninety-eight equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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Myriad are the examples at Homeboy Industries of homies coloring way outside the lines and being given their ninety-eighth chance.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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* It was actually the ninety-ninth by Chinese reckoning and the ninety-eighth in the West.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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High enough, it turns out, to place him in the ninety-eighth percentile for cognitive development.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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High enough, it turns out, to place him in the ninety-eighth percentile for cognitive development.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009
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She was then in her ninety-eighth year; she died just short of the century, which she had hoped to reach.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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She was then in her ninety-eighth year; she died just short of the century, which she had hoped to reach.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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At 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25, 1988, Caroline gave birth to Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, a 7-pound, 12-ounce baby girl named after Rose Kennedy, a month short of her ninety-eighth birthday.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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At 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 25, 1988, Caroline gave birth to Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, a 7-pound, 12-ounce baby girl named after Rose Kennedy, a month short of her ninety-eighth birthday.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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Seriously, I rank telephones about ninety-eighth on my list of ideal ways to communicate, and it's only ahead of "circle-jerk morse code" because phones have a better refractory period.
Tuesday stuff yendi 2005
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By the time the ninety-eighth and final wagon had joined the line, the front of the train was over a mile ahead.
The Frasers Clay Ana Leigh 2004
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