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When they do this often enough, the borrowed word "becomes part of their vocabulary", OED said.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025
OED leased a similar space on Airport Way South from 2012 to 2014.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
OED had been looking for a similar building for nearly a decade.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
The first examples of ‘theory’ and ‘theorize’ in the relevant sense in OED are from 1638.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It got as far as the Supplement volume of the new OED, which is something, but not enough to assure survival.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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