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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has slid an average 1.1% in the ninth month of the year, in data that dates back to the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi, who is looking to win his ninth Ballon d'Or, has been nominated.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Simon Harmer and Zaman Akhter were both trapped lbw to the first two balls of Crocombe's ninth over before Shane Snater played over the third and lost his leg stump.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Jack Dreyer kept things stable with a clean ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“But school in England is more advanced than here—so they're putting me in the ninth grade. At twelve.”
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this manner there were formed intervals of thirds, 3:2, of fourths, 4:3, and of ninths, 9:8.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
The most important characteristics of the gift are: introduction of diagonal line and triangular form; division into thirds, ninths, and twenty-sevenths; illustration of the inclined plane and cube-root.
From Froebel's Gifts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
