eighty-six

variants or 86

Example Sentences

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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
  • In the trailer, it is shown that if you are caught indulging in a brief moment of pleasure, you are packed away into a human-sized cardboard box and quickly discarded into a heap of other passionate offenders.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The foods were voluntarily discarded.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Max Muncy had just hurt his knee and would be out for a month, a 9-14 stretch when the team lost the bulk of what had been a nine-game division lead.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Debate rages on in Pennsylvania as to whether the Eagles offense is too predictable, or simply ineffective after the Eagles lost their second straight game last week, an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Giants on Thursday Night Football.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 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
  • The Department of Justice, meanwhile, would shed its historical independence and operate at the direction of the White House.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Construction companies, for instance, have shed 10,000 jobs since May.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The council had already rejected Allied once before, months earlier, over settlements — including back wages — that the company has had to pay out to current and former employees.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Teachers, students, and parents alike rejected the $850 million effort.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Eighty-six.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eighty-six. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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