thirty-eight

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Over the summer, word leaked out that Michael Jordan, at age thirty-eight, might come out of retirement for the second time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2023

Not two pages later, Slaughter acknowledges that in “the trial by press, thirty-eight out of thirty-eight media accounts found against us.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

For by 1845, thirty-eight million shipped to farther shores.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020

There are four hours and thirty-eight minutes left on this flight.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2020

She still counts storm drains: thirty-eight on the walk home from her laboratory.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr