eighty-six
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The hedge fund that had bought the company had already tried to eighty-six Freds’ rosy sautéed chicken livers over sourdough toast, proving once again that money can’t buy taste.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
A practitioner still needs to be choosy, though: a recent investigation by the London Times revealed that eighty-six per cent of the rivers in England contained pollution levels exceeding current E.U. standards.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
The U.S. would remove fifty-four hundred troops from Afghanistan within a hundred and thirty-five days, and the remaining eighty-six hundred would leave within the next year and a half.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
Eve Thurmann, who was eighty-six, stalled out on Piersall Road in her ’36 Buick, then showed up at Petersen’s with mud caked on her knees; she’d walked two miles into town.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
