Definition of "eighty-nine" [eighty-nine]

• The cardinal number immediately following eighty-eight and preceding ninety. (noun)

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• "When home, in that first year alone, Obama hosted eighty-nine town-hall meetings throughout the state of Illinois."
• "Reported attacks in Ingushetia rose from five in 2004 to 227 in 2008; those in Dagestan increased from twenty-nine to eighty-nine in the same period."
• "Yet my college diploma says, “Given at Hempstead, New York, this thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred AND eighty-nine.”"