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
A practitioner still needs to be choosy, though: a recent investigation by the London Times revealed that eighty-six per cent of the rivers in England contained pollution levels exceeding current E.U. standards.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019
Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
For eighty-six years the townspeople had shared one goal and it had at last been reached.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
