Africa.
African.
Air Force.
Anglo-French.
audio frequency.
Anglo-French
automatic focus
audio frequency
(in Canada) Air Force
First recorded in 2005–10
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Chick Evans and young Roland Mackenzie played fiercely at each other's heels until in the late shadows of a nerve-straining af- ternoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
She went back to Hongkong, confronted Townsend, told him, one af- ternoon, what an ass she thought he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
It appears as a-, ab-, ac-, ad-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, as in achieve, abbreviate, accede, admire, affix, aggregate, allot, annex, approve, arrive, assign, attract.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
There are probably few stations that would have at all af- fectedthem.
From Active Service by Crane, Stephen
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