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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number ninety-six, describing a person or thing in position number 96 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of ninety-six equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • My colleague Otto Bird died a few weeks ago just four days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

    Education 2009

  • My colleague Otto Bird died a few weeks ago just four days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • My report card saying I was in the ninety-sixth percentile of my tenth-grade class got me a card from my father with a five-dollar bill inside.

    All The Roads That Lead From Home Anne Leigh Parrish 2011

  • My colleague Otto Bird died a few weeks ago just four days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

    Prof. Otto A. Bird, requiescat in pace 2009

  • My colleague Otto Bird died a few weeks ago just four days shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

    Art and Literature 2009

  • Today is the ninety-sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

    2008 January 2008

  • Today is the ninety-sixth birthday of Ralph Ellison.

    Birthdays 2009

  • He punched a time card on the ninety-sixth floor of the north tower at 8:31 A.M. that registered in an uptown central computer for National Maintenance Corp.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • I remembered once hearing a radio interview with Bertrand Russell on his ninety-sixth birthday.

    Living Alone and Loving It Barbara Feldon 2003

  • He punched a time card on the ninety-sixth floor of the north tower at 8:31 A.M. that registered in an uptown central computer for National Maintenance Corp.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

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