ninetieth

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• Only months before she died in her ninetieth year, Sadie Baxter had written a letter about the disposition of her family home and its contents.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The occasion was Dr. Newell's ninetieth birthday in 1999.

  Academic text (2002)

• Her career spanned thirty years, and she continued to write into her ninetieth year.

  Blog text (4)

• Baffuor Akoto recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, but his words should be considered beyond their literal sense.

  Academic text (1995)

• We spoke a lot about Slater Brown, then in his ninetieth year and still enjoying pastries in the cafes of Gloucester and Rockport.

  Academic text (2009)

• Soyinka frames his response by relating his unexpected encounter in Paris, at a celebration for the ninetieth birthday of Senghor, with the historical musical instrument, the balafon.

  Academic text (2008)

• Ah, there he was, walking across the almost-empty plaza, carrying four helium-filled Hi-Yo, Hiram! balloons and looking like a convalescent celebrating his ninetieth birthday.

  Fiction book (1992)

• As part of the observation of MENC's ninetieth anniversary, the Music Educators Journal interviewed a random selection of long-term members (fifty or more years of membership).

  Academic text (1997)

• This year marks the ninetieth anniversary of the school’s founding.

• The ninetieth edition of the book includes updates from the latest research.

Synonyms

9

90th

vsninetieth

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The position after eighty-nine in a list

is the word form used to show the same ordinal position

How High

hundredth

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ninetieth

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twentieth

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first

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