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

At its height, the empire consisted of thirty-eight provinces, each expected to submit specific tribute to the imperial capitals.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“I always tell him. ’I am more intelligent because it took me no more than thirty-eight years to get to know you, it took you about fifty-something,’” she told the book’s authors.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2022

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

Because we had two weeks, we had my wife drop us at Caratunk, a remote community on the Kennebec River, thirty-eight miles short of Monson and the official start of the wilderness.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson