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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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The number of people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E departments from a decision to admit to actually being admitted stood at 50,582 in September, up from 44,951 in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Dr Fiona Hunter, vice chair of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, said A&E departments were providing "unsafe" levels of care, with some patients spending 72 hours on trolleys in hospital corridors.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"My temperature went up, my heart rate went up, I was shaking uncontrollably and unfortunately went straight to A&E."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

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

Finishing third and advancing would mean Scotland playing the winners of groups A, E or I - decided by which groups provide the third-placed teams.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

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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