ninth
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It was the ninth similar incident since the start of 2024.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Edwin Díaz can’t protect a two-run lead, giving up three runs in the ninth as the Dodgers lose to Milwaukee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Instead, the team have slipped backwards and are ninth in the championship after 11 races this season, before the resumption of racing this weekend following the sport's summer break.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
That was Great Britain's ninth gold medal, taking them above Italy at the top of the standings - and the team's 16th overall.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Bad memories of their ninth adventure that summer, when they took down the Dastardly Dummy of Denos.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Our ninths in oil, but not in water.
From Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
The railroads in the United States comprise over four ninths of the total railway mileage of the world, and are considerably longer than the railroads of all the countries of Europe combined.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
