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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber eighty-one , describing a person or thing in position number81 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
eighty-one equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only Alice.
Alice I Have Been: Summary and book reviews of Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin. 2010
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He died, Bryson tells us, "contented and rich, at his winter home on Pass-Grille Key, Florida, just shy of his eighty-first birthday in 1934."
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010
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But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.”
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 10TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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He died, Bryson tells us, "contented and rich, at his winter home on Pass-Grille Key, Florida, just shy of his eighty-first birthday in 1934."
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson Louis Bayard 2010
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Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I'm thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.
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Mom had suffered for years with emphysema and then, a few weeks after her eighty-first birthday, she caught a cold that quickly turned into pneumonia.
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I'm thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010
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Mom had suffered for years with emphysema and then, a few weeks after her eighty-first birthday, she caught a cold that quickly turned into pneumonia.
Love For No Reason Marci Shimoff 2010
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Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I\'m thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010
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Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I'm thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then 2010
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