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How to pronounce eighties in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms 1880s
Type of decennary, decade, decennium
Type Words
Synonyms mid-eighties
Type of time of life
Type Words
Synonyms 1980s
Type of decennium, decade, decennary

Examples of eighties

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The day after a big earthquake is a bit like a Sunday in the eighties, actually.
From the stuff.co.nz
Streaks and well-defined lines will make your eye makeup rigid and too eighties.
From the yallsjoynt.com
Baroque pop band The Divine Comedy from Enniskillen also formed in the eighties.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Bit depressing to see British media's critical parameters stuck in the eighties.
From the guardian.co.uk
Painted in the mid-eighties, it shows what can happen to these murals over time.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Rick Parfitt said during the seventies and eighties he was high most of the time.
From the expressandstar.com
In a slow setting for world growth the price of oil languishes in the eighties.
From the forbes.com
In the mid-eighties, I thought it was getting out of hand and how right I was.
From the telegraph.co.uk
That fear was the Soviet Union in the eighties and today it is Climate Change.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • The decade from 1880 to 1889
  • The time of life between 80 and 90
  • (eighty) being ten more than seventy
  • (eighty) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
  • File:1980s decade montage.png|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall ...
  • "Eighties" is Killing Joke's first single off their fifth studio album, Night Time. It was originally released in April, 1984 under E'G Records as a 12" and 7" single and was produced by Chris Kimsey. ...
  • 80 (eighty) is the natural number following 79 and preceding 81.
  • (Eighty (Book Titles)) The Old Codger: A. T. Yearsold ^JG
  • (eighty) n. proprietary sobriety cure often sold in pints