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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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One in five people struggle with their mental health and thousands of people turn up at A&E when they get to crisis point because they cannot find help elsewhere.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

These potential movies make a lot of sense for Lifetime, says Elaine Frontain Bryant, executive vice president and head of programming for A&E, Lifetime, and Lifetime Movie Network.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

A month earlier, A&E aired the first installment of “Desert Law,” a 10-episode reality-TV series about the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Before COVID, he was a regular on Live PD, the megapopular show on the A&E Network in which law enforcement officers broadcast live feeds of their work.

From Slate Jul. 23, 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 Tinsley, Jim

“The vowels are A, E, I, O and U. Consonants are all the other letters.”

From New York Times Jun. 26, 2023

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

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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