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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following ninety-one and preceding ninety-three.

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  • adjective being two more than ninety

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Examples

  • My parents lived to be ninety-two and almost ninety-four; both died last year within a few months of each other.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • My grandmother had been ninety-two years old, but I thought she would be there when I got back.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • On Friday, April 5, ten hours of fighting along the Gaza armistice line resulted, according to Egyptian sources, in thirty-three civilian deaths and ninety-two wounded.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Imagine a simple monotonic progression: fifty thousand, … eight thousand, … nineteen hundred, … three hundred, … ninety-two, … twelve, … five, … one, zero.

    None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Imagine that, sitting down at a desk at the age of ninety-two and being taught the alphabet.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

  • Long enough to admire the striation of the petals on the lush pink rose on page ninety-two of the fashion magazine I was holding.

    My Other Mother is a Ferrari Sally Houtman 2012

  • On Friday, April 5, ten hours of fighting along the Gaza armistice line resulted, according to Egyptian sources, in thirty-three civilian deaths and ninety-two wounded.

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • My parents lived to be ninety-two and almost ninety-four; both died last year within a few months of each other.

    The Law of Happiness Dr. Henry Cloud 2011

  • My grandmother had been ninety-two years old, but I thought she would be there when I got back.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • Cletus Miller was ninety-two when he learned to read.

    Ten Miles Past Normal Frances O’Roark Dowell 2011

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