ae
1 Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of ae1
Middle English ( Scots ) ā-, Old English ān one; cf. a 1
Origin of ae.6
From the Latin word aetātis
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The Angels ae 46-59 since Nevin took over as manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
"We ae proud of each and every one of them," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022
The Cowboys ae sending Cooper to the Browns to save about $16 million in salary cap space.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
New hospitalizations ae also ticking upward, although not as dramatically as the new cases.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2020
He lap on ae milk-white steed, And she lap on anither, And syne the twa rade out the way Like sister and like brither.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
The largest shareholder of York Space is AE Industrial Partners, a private-investment firm with $7.5 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
Mr. Berg is a research director and Mr. Rosenblatt is CEO of AE Studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
What AE framed as playful wordplay struck a nerve with critics, who argued it echoed historic eugenics rhetoric, particularly given the ad’s focus on her physical appearance like her blond hair and blue eyes.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
AE: When it comes to neon, I think it’s a medium that I’ll continue to work with until I can’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
"Why write a jail journal?" queried AE, smiling towards the corner.
From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell
They welcomed a son, X Æ A-Xii, in May 2020, and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl, in December 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
In 2020, she also teamed up with the mood music company Endel to create an AI-generated lullaby for her first child, named X Æ A-12, with SpaceX founder and Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2023
Danish, an often staccato language spoken by only about six million people and whose alphabet includes the letters Æ, Ø and Å, is perhaps an unlikely choice for pop’s next lingua franca.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Musk, 35, and Grimes, 51, also have a son named X Æ A-12, pronounced “X Ash A Twelve.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
Note in particular: The letter Æ æ is alphabetized as ae.
From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
And to i. a point assigned, grant that io. equall to the same ae. may bee set.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
As in the same example uy. cutting ae. it shall also cut io.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
For let the right lines ae. and ai, cut one another at a, and let two parallell lines uo, and ei, cut them; I say, as au, is to uo, so ae, is to ei.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
And let there be cut off from the same ae. by applying of a rular made equall to io. the lesser, portion au. as here.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
Wherefore seeing the parts au. and ue. are equall, ae. the assigned right line is divided into two equall portions.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
He carries his survey up to the present day and writes adeptly about three currently active poets: Alice Oswald, Sasha Dugdale and A.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the hall hang framed letters Stoppard has collected, including one from A.E.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Other chapters of “The Age of Decadence” address the era’s widespread fixation on eugenics, its crisis of religious faith, the poetry of Thomas Hardy, A.E.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2021
Planning for the renovation began in the summer of 2019, when the A.E.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
Karpinski are also to be found in two other volumes of this series, while certain studies in Roman Law and administration by Professors A.E.
From The University of Michigan by Wilfred Shaw
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