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In the ninth, Max Muncy added an insurance run with his third home run of the series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Isaias is the ninth tropical storm of the Atlantic season, but will be the first to become a hurricane.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Sasaki then retired the side in order in the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He also had to stop twice on Sunday before finishing well off the pace but claimed ninth spot in the championship.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
We were going to do the seventh and eighth grades in one year and were then going to do the ninth grade the next year, making up any work we needed along the way.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
It gets some unusual effects with intervals of tenths and ninths, and shows a remarkable depth of emotion.
Five ninths of the population live in towns.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
