eighty-six

variants or 86

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Recent Examples of eighty-six Dick Smothers, who is eighty-six, took the long view the other day. Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 At High Meadow, Rex Stout grew a hundred and eighty-six varieties of iris on three acres. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eighty-six
Verb
  • To remove the pulp from the seeds, use a spoon or butter knife to scrape the pulp, separating it from the seeds, which may be discarded.
    Stephanie Ganz, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Duplicate submissions will be discarded.
    Steven Martinez, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And even after losing Gerrit Cole to Tommy John surgery in spring training, the Yankees’ rotation finished with the fourth-best ERA in baseball.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • People are losing their jobs and millions are about to lose their health care.
    Maria Shriver, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gen Zers in their droves are ditching college to become their own boss.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Duke also proposed new natural gas plants, like in Vermillion County, Indiana, and the Sierra Club noted the utility has ditched plans to build out renewable energy.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And yet, the agency’s human-resources office—which handled ethics issues—has been scrapped, according to Alt CDC, a team of anonymous public-health officials that has been crowdsourcing updates on the firings.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The main channel scrapped music videos back in 2011 and instead pushed those out to its sister channel.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Now convinced that Lo was right all along, Richard’s assistant runs to the lodge’s hunting shed to get a rifle.
    Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a historic royal palace from a Polish river, shedding light on a violent part of the country's history.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals later rejected a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel against him.
    Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate rejected Democratic and Republican plans to reopen the government Thursday, its seventh attempt to break the stalemate.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Eighty-six.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-six. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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