Definitions
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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingtwenty-eight and precedingthirty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being nine more than twenty
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-eight and one
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Examples
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According to the General Social Survey, people who had at least some college education remained a minority of the population aged eighteen to twenty-nine until the 1990s.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Her children are now ages twenty-nine, twenty-four and thirteen.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Not since the crash of twenty-nine have things been so unfair
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I literally turned off the router ports for twenty-eight or twenty-nine days a month.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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It was June of 2009, just ten months before a gas explosion in Massey's Upper Big Branch mine killed twenty-nine miners and showed the nation how Massey Coal plays the appeals game to evade enforcement on the company's thousands of safety violations.
Anne Butterfield: AG for Reelection: Grandstanding and Carelessness for Colorado Anne Butterfield 2010
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I think it took about three months the first time for me to wear size twenty-nine jeans.
The Mommy Diet Alison J. Sweeney 2011
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Reported attacks in Ingushetia rose from five in 2004 to 227 in 2008; those in Dagestan increased from twenty-nine to eighty-nine in the same period.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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I entered Stanford Business School twenty-nine years ago as a naive twenty-one year old, the youngest in my class.
Chip Conley: The Top 10 Emotionally-Intelligent Fortune 500 CEOs Chip Conley 2011
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He was twenty-nine years old and had graduated before all of them.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
hernesheir commented on the word twenty-nine
Highest possible hand score in the game of cribbage: All four fives and his nobs.
June 29, 2010