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ninety-ninth

[ nahyn-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninety-eighth; being the ordinal number for 99.
  2. being one of 99 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-ninth part, especially of one (1/99).
  2. the ninety-ninth member of a series.
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Example Sentences

“Just arrived with a draft of a hundred men from the Hundred and Ninety-Ninth,” he added proudly.

This includes a considerable area in every state and territory west of the ninety-ninth degree of longitude.

It is said that one-half the world does not know how the other half lives, but not the ninety-ninth part knows how it dies.

For the ninety-ninth time I examined the packets of raisins, the bread, and the water bottles.

They form the ninety-ninth part of the rock in this quarter.

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