thirty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 32 or XXXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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“Thirty.eight, thirty-nine, blackberry, huckleberry, forty-five, strawberry, thirty-two, raspberry . . .” So it is very likely that he took fewer than fifty steps, or perhaps many more.
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Boring things like, “There are thirty-two million people,” and “Some of Canada’s main exports are timber and aluminum,” and they sent all those facts and figures to me in an envelope.
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He would rescue her in no more than thirty-two seconds, he had promised.
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But to grown-ups themselves, the difference between being, say, thirty-two and fifty-six is immense.
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“He got to page one thirty-two,” Michael said, thinking of the dog-eared page.
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