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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number eighty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 89 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of eighty-nine equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • The front of the darwaza would also be built of the red sandstone so prolific in the quarries around Agra but inlaid with white marble, into which would be carved, in calligraphic script, the eighty-ninth sura from the Quran, which invited believers to step into Paradise.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Then, the day before her eighty-ninth birthday, she woke as curious, as alive, and as expectant as she had ever been.

    EIGHTY-EIGHT 2010

  • The front of the darwaza would also be built of the red sandstone so prolific in the quarries around Agra but inlaid with white marble, into which would be carved, in calligraphic script, the eighty-ninth sura from the Quran, which invited believers to step into Paradise.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • The front of the darwaza would also be built of the red sandstone so prolific in the quarries around Agra but inlaid with white marble, into which would be carved, in calligraphic script, the eighty-ninth sura from the Quran, which invited believers to step into Paradise.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • She died of a heart attack in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 2, 1967, a day after her eighty-ninth birthday.

    Eugenia Goodkind Meyer. 2009

  • She died in London on September 12, 1986, shortly before her eighty-ninth birthday.

    Charlotte Wolff. 2009

  • The official announcent was made late last week: Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner's grandson, will step down as director of the Bayreuth Festival on August 31, one day after his eighty-ninth birthday.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • The official announcent was made late last week: Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner's grandson, will step down as director of the Bayreuth Festival on August 31, one day after his eighty-ninth birthday.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Will 2008

  • He died at La Chesnaye, in his second-floor bedroom facing south, late in the afternoon on December 7, 1894, three weeks after his eighty-ninth birthday.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

  • He died at La Chesnaye, in his second-floor bedroom facing south, late in the afternoon on December 7, 1894, three weeks after his eighty-ninth birthday.

    The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

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