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  • noun ordinal The ordinal form of the number eighty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 82 of a sequence.
  • noun fractional One of eighty-two equal parts of a whole.

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Examples

  • Had the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., survived the struggles of the civil rights movement and gone on to lead a long, healthy life, he would be waking up this weekend to his eighty-second birthday.

    Carl Lewis: Dr. King's Dinner Conversations Carl Lewis 2011

  • Had the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., survived the struggles of the civil rights movement and gone on to lead a long, healthy life, he would be waking up this weekend to his eighty-second birthday.

    Carl Lewis: Dr. King's Dinner Conversations Carl Lewis 2011

  • She was an elementary school teacher in Springfield, Virginia, where coworkers had told her about the explosions at the World Trade Center, and she was frantically trying to phone a brother-in-law who worked on the eighty-second floor of one of the towers and her brother who worked across the street.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • She was an elementary school teacher in Springfield, Virginia, where coworkers had told her about the explosions at the World Trade Center, and she was frantically trying to phone a brother-in-law who worked on the eighty-second floor of one of the towers and her brother who worked across the street.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • She was an elementary school teacher in Springfield, Virginia, where coworkers had told her about the explosions at the World Trade Center, and she was frantically trying to phone a brother-in-law who worked on the eighty-second floor of one of the towers and her brother who worked across the street.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • In fact, he had applied for the headmastership of Knightley Academy when their grand chevalier announced he would be retiring just after his eighty-second birthday.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • She was an elementary school teacher in Springfield, Virginia, where coworkers had told her about the explosions at the World Trade Center, and she was frantically trying to phone a brother-in-law who worked on the eighty-second floor of one of the towers and her brother who worked across the street.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • In fact, he had applied for the headmastership of Knightley Academy when their grand chevalier announced he would be retiring just after his eighty-second birthday.

    KNIGHTLEY ACADEMY VIOLET HABERDASHER 2010

  • Prosts heart was in his mouth as he entered Victoria Park and headed for the final hairpin for the eighty-second time.

    Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

  • Institute of Pacific Relations: Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, eighty-second Congress, second session, pursuant to S.Res. 366 (81stCongress); a resolution relating to the internal security of the UnitedStates; hearings held July 25, 1951 - June 20, 1952 by the InternalSecurity Subcommittee. by United States.

    Attacking the innocent is an inherent GOP trait. 2007

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