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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following ninety-six and preceding ninety-eight.

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  • adjective being seven more than ninety

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Examples

  • At ninety-seven years of age, the lady before the crowd had seen the glory days of the theater, and performed in award-winning plays of the ages.

    The Aristocrats « The Graveyard 2010

  • At ninety-seven years of age, the lady before the crowd had seen the glory days of the theater, and performed in award-winning plays of the ages.

    2010 May « The Graveyard 2010

  • One hundred and three degrees, ninety-seven percent humidity: like playing tennis underwater, only the water is boiling.

    John McEnroe Visits the 15th Street Diner Sean Lovelace 2010

  • The new odds of success are returned at ninety-seven per cent.

    NaNoWriMo Post 1: Talos’ Story « The Graveyard 2009

  • Much later, when she will relate this to Weiss, they will figure his age then to have been ninety-seven--if, in fact, she saw Hitler, on the probability of which Weiss remains mute.

    Anis Shivani: Review: Chloe Aridjis's Experimental Novel of Berlin: Hitler, the German Past, and the Invisible Memories of a World City Anis Shivani 2011

  • On Thursday, April 19, 1956, at 2:35 P.M., the president gathered a large group in the Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building.39 The purpose was to plan for Operation Alert, a seven-day mobilization exercise scheduled for July and based on a scenario in which ninety-seven nuclear bombs would be exploded over fifty-two major American cities with additional attacks on bases, nuclear facilities, and eleven smaller cities.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Canadian psychologist Tracey Waskowic surveyed seventy-seven widows and widowers ranging in age from forty-one to ninety-seven and found that securely attached people were less angry, less socially isolated, and less prone to guilt, despair, and rumination which in itself is thought to perpetuate depressed moods than insecurely attached people.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • On Thursday, April 19, 1956, at 2:35 P.M., the president gathered a large group in the Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building.39 The purpose was to plan for Operation Alert, a seven-day mobilization exercise scheduled for July and based on a scenario in which ninety-seven nuclear bombs would be exploded over fifty-two major American cities with additional attacks on bases, nuclear facilities, and eleven smaller cities.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Canadian psychologist Tracey Waskowic surveyed seventy-seven widows and widowers ranging in age from forty-one to ninety-seven and found that securely attached people were less angry, less socially isolated, and less prone to guilt, despair, and rumination which in itself is thought to perpetuate depressed moods than insecurely attached people.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • Much later, when she will relate this to Weiss, they will figure his age then to have been ninety-seven--if, in fact, she saw Hitler, on the probability of which Weiss remains mute.

    Anis Shivani: Review: Chloe Aridjis's Experimental Novel of Berlin: Hitler, the German Past, and the Invisible Memories of a World City Anis Shivani 2011

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