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
The U.S. would remove fifty-four hundred troops from Afghanistan within a hundred and thirty-five days, and the remaining eighty-six hundred would leave within the next year and a half.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
From 2010 through 2015, Harvard admitted eighty-six per cent of recruited athletes, compared to six per cent of non-athletes, according to a filing in the recent lawsuit challenging affirmative action there.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 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
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