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eighty-three
[ ey-tee-three ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 80 plus 3.
- a symbol for this number, as 83 or LXXXIII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 83 in number.
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Eighty-three percent of people apprehended at the Southwest border were “returned” in 2005, as opposed to only 21 percent in 2012.
Eighty-three percent of Americans rate rainy days and nights as the best time to have sex.
Eighty-three percent of the American electorate believes that federal spending should be cut.
Eighty-three percent of all state legislative seats are on the line in November.
Clark's recollections in 1869, when he was eighty-three years old, and resided at Redruth.
Of the one hundred Irish members, eighty-three were popularly returned.
And the clerk, counting out one dollar and eighty-three cents, obeyed her literally.
At the same time the clause for twelve hours was rejected by one hundred and eighty-six against one hundred and eighty-three.
Semmes lost six hundred and eighty-three killed and wounded, Wafford five hundred and sixty-two.
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