eighty-six

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The hedge fund that had bought the company had already tried to eighty-six Freds’ rosy sautéed chicken livers over sourdough toast, proving once again that money can’t buy taste.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Chances are that it’s in the Santa Monica Mountains national park, eighty-six per cent of which burned in the Woolsey Fire.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

For the past few decades, church attendance in Poland has been declining; still, eighty-six per cent of Polish citizens identify as Catholic.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2019

Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019

Eve Thurmann, who was eighty-six, stalled out on Piersall Road in her ’36 Buick, then showed up at Petersen’s with mud caked on her knees; she’d walked two miles into town.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson