ninety-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 95 or XCV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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By the time he got to ninety-five, Abby had caught on and was singing with him.
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Our model says they are worth ninety-five, said one of the Morgan Stanley people on the phone call.
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“Eight hundred ninety-five new Floridians are arriving each day,” Martinez said.
From Washington Post
Then he sat down in his black leather chair, considered his move for ninety-five seconds, and played his knight to his king bishop’s third square.
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If Vern was ninety-five years old, he must have been scuba diving and teaching into his eighties.
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