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Plural of ninety
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The decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
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The decade of one's life from age 90 through age 99.
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(temperature, rates) The range between 90 and 99.
adjective
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From or evoking the 91st through 100th years of a century (chiefly the 1990s).
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I found myself attracted to his mullet even though it struck me as needlessly nineties.
Examples of nineties in a Sentence
Wasn't this exactly the sort of thing that earned Microsoft such vicious opprobrium in the nineties?
It mixes the late eighties noisy aggression with the nineties pop punk sensibility - listeners from each genre should both be satisfied.
Someone is needed to interview two spinster sisters in their nineties for a research project in Social History and Folklore.
Former chairman Clive Thompson earned the sobriquet Mr 20% for the regularity with which the company met this earnings target during the nineties.
In the early nineties breakbeat and loose jungle techno was filling his record boxes as he traveled the length and breadth oh the UK.
The outside temperature was in the high nineties, then the heat from the ovens and finally the tandoor oven made it almost unbearable.
Buying stock no longer holds the get-rich-quick guarantee it did during the explosion of dot.com's in the late nineties.
Hailing from Louisiana (born in Mississippi), Britney rose to pop stardom on the Mickey Mouse Club in the early nineties.
Take a look and see what you dig up-there's plenty that looks straight out of the early nineties if you look hard enough.
Tawny Kitaen seemed to make a small comeback when she guest-starred on an episode of Seinfeld and hosted the show America's Funniest People in the early nineties.
Much like the Jennifer Aniston hair craze of the nineties, Fawcett's hairstyle was one of the most sought after of the day.
Dr. Dre's record company, Deathrow Records, released Dogg's Doggystyle in the early nineties to wide acclaim and Billboard success.
I eventually moved through the sounds of new wave, and hip hop through the late eighties and early nineties.
Fast forward to the nineties, when movie roles became scarcer and his recreational drug usage escalated into a full blown drug addiction and Haim suddenly became unemployable.
Houston’s rise to fame was defined by a squeaky clean image in the eighties and early nineties.
The randomness of the nineties is combined with the trendiness of former times to create a look that is casual and yet clean.
The album ended up becoming one of the largest selling albums of the nineties.
Outlets, both online and offline, that offer discount blue jeans, which in the nineties catered to the tattered, grunge look embraced by female teens, have now become the standard for males as well.
The fact is, senior centers are popular with seniors of all ages, from those in their fifties to those in their eighties or even nineties.
In the late eighties/early nineties Nintendo were well and truly king of the Video Games Industry; Mario was selling by the bucket load and it seemed as though no-one could possibly topple their all-powerful dominance.
Models for sale include campers ranging from vintage trailers, units from from the early nineties to current year models.
In the nineties, women were asking their hairdressers for a "Rachel," after Jennifer Aniston's character on Friends.
In the nineteen nineties Hilfiger started the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation dedicated to supporting education and helping America's youth.
During the grunge craze in the early nineties, Doc Martens were frequently seen paired with feminine, floaty dresses and skirts; it's a look that doesn't sound as if it should work, but you may well be surprised.
It doesn't matter if you are in your sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties.
In the late nineties, Progressive launched its website.
Blur became famous during the mid nineties following the revitalization of British pop by The Stone Roses in the late eighties/early nineties.
Elastica were a pop-punk outfit who rose to fame in the nineties, partly due to lead singer Justine Frischmann's relationship with Blur's Damon Albarn.
The nineties witnessed the emergence of a number of female fronted guitar bands, including the likes of Echobelly, Sleeper, Lush and St Etienne.
He went on to direct the Lethal Weapon series in the eighties and nineties.
It is the scenes in which the rebels interact with the machine avatars in virtual reality that set this movie apart from other action-adventures of the nineties.
Here we find a real contrast between the national commitment to renewal of the post-war years, and the official complacency of the nineties.
The single currency was the theme of the Nineties.
The extension of British influence, the protection of British interests, were almost universally advocated; and the few statesmen who repeated in the nineties the sentiments which would have been generally accepted in the sixties, were regarded as Little Englanders.
The struggle over the civil marriage and divorce laws that filled the greater part of the nineties served and was perhaps.