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

The site encloses thirty-eight different mounds within a large earthen D-shaped rectangle.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 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

The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel