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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following ninety-two and preceding ninety-four.

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  • adjective being three more than ninety

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Examples

  • She was a dear person for all the ninety-three years she lived.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • On the way back to camp, the U.S. Marines counted ninety-three NVA corpses trapped in the makeshift barbed-wire fence erected around base camp.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • A couple of months later, Paw Paw, who was ninety-three years old, sat down to eat breakfast at his farm one morning and never got up again.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • “Transphasic shields holding steady at ninety-three percent,” Lieutenant Commander Plante confirmed from her ops console.

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

  • Paw Paw lived another two decades before he passed in 2008 at the age of ninety-three.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • A month later, however, he was freed after posting bail of ninety-three thousand dollars and was allowed to move back to Thailand.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • On the way back to camp, the U.S. Marines counted ninety-three NVA corpses trapped in the makeshift barbed-wire fence erected around base camp.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Six hundred ninety-three was a family of four: a seven, eleven, and twin threes ...

    Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • On the way back to camp, the U.S. Marines counted ninety-three NVA corpses trapped in the makeshift barbed-wire fence erected around base camp.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • “Four hundred ninety-three gold,” the man said with a serene smile.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

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