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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following thirty-eight and preceding forty.

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  • adjective being nine more than thirty

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Examples

  • At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, thirty-nine thousand nisei American-born children of Japanese immigrants in Hawaii and eighteen thousand in California were enrolled in Japanese-language schools.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • George Bonanno and colleagues assessed thirty-nine bereaved people and found that those with the strongest “continuing bonds” also had the most elevated grief symptoms up to five years after the loss, suggesting that an ongoing attachment to the dead could be, just as Freud originally thought, unhealthy.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • She tapped at her controls, and then, in a quieter voice, said, “Eleven dead, thirty-nine wounded.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • At thirty-nine he remained single, most believing his story that he was too focused on his career and unwilling to subject a wife and family to such a rolling stone existence, but there was something about his personality that kept Lena from wanting to know him any better.

    I.O.U. Elle 2011

  • We had three children in thirty-nine months again with the “white trash” labels!

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • By the mid-1970s, thirty-nine other states had followed suit.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • George Bonanno and colleagues assessed thirty-nine bereaved people and found that those with the strongest “continuing bonds” also had the most elevated grief symptoms up to five years after the loss, suggesting that an ongoing attachment to the dead could be, just as Freud originally thought, unhealthy.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • She tapped at her controls, and then, in a quieter voice, said, “Eleven dead, thirty-nine wounded.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She tapped at her controls, and then, in a quieter voice, said, “Eleven dead, thirty-nine wounded.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • By the mid-1970s, thirty-nine other states had followed suit.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

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