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Further back, Fernando Alonso earned Aston Martin-Honda their first points since the incident-strewn Monaco race with an excellent drive on a one-stop strategy to ninth place.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
It was the ninth similar incident since the start of 2024.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
With an 11-2 lead, the Dodgers sent Díaz, who hadn’t pitched since Friday, to the mound for the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
During the Dodgers’ 11-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night, Díaz pitched the ninth inning and gave up three runs and four hits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
They don’t say nothing about the fact that I’m a math whiz, and can outdo ninth graders when it comes to figuring numbers.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
Sofia has had three first place wins, a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other than wins, Sofia has had a third, two fifths and two ninths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen to.
From Time Magazine Archive
So, Fifths, sixths, sevenths, eighths, ninths, tenths, &c.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
And next he filled up the intervals of a fourth with ninths, leaving a remnant which is in the ratio of 256:243.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
