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    A&E
    Arts and Entertainment: a cable television channel.
  • A & E
    A & E
    abbreviation
    Accident and Emergency (department in hospitals)

A&E

American  
Trademark.
  1. Arts and Entertainment: a cable television channel.


A & E British  

abbreviation

  1. Accident and Emergency (department in hospitals)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Eight days after her Faceland bleph surgery, Laura, not her real name, made her first of four visits to A&E because her eyelid wounds had reopened.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

But this isn't a typical A&E unit in the NHS, it's a Hollywood set with actors recreating the drama of an emergency department for TV series The Pitt.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Doctors seem ready to watch even in weeks when they have had punishing days or nights in A&E.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Oli's father, Stephen, says he knows A&E staff are under pressure, but he cannot understand how a brain scan was not ordered, given his son's medical history.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Old books are dated, naturally, but they can show you things about life in the past which you can't pick up from an A&E documentary.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Jim Tinsley

River No. 2 Face Oil targets acne and aging concerns while brightening the skin, thanks to fatty acids, antioxidants and vitamins A, E and C.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2021

It’s true that A, E, I, O and U have never gotten much respect.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2018

Photograph shows a soil profile from South Dakota with A, E, and Bt horizons.

From Textbooks Sep. 6, 2018

Calculating the macaque’s so-called “vowel space,” Fitch and Ghazanfar discovered that—at least theoretically—he, too, could produce five distinctive vowels, roughly equivalent to the A, E, I, O, and U in English.

From Science Magazine Dec. 9, 2016

So we added seventeen more Navajo words for A, E, I, O, U, D, H, L, N, R, S, and T. The most commonly used of those letters got more than one new word.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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