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
Example Sentences
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They ae up nearly 154% for the year so far.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
New hospitalizations ae also ticking upward, although not as dramatically as the new cases.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2020
"An' never ae piece o' pork," lamented Macro.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John
Mr. Berg is a research director and Mr. Rosenblatt is CEO of AE Studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
“A home often represents decades of memories, but also deferred maintenance and missed opportunities to maximize value,” said Mike Casey, a certified financial planner with AE Advisors.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 20, 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: That is precisely what I’m trying to get out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
Ae Fond Kiss AE fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Their son together, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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 Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson)
And to i. a point assigned, grant that io. equall to the same ae. may bee set.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
And ae. doth touch the helix or spirall.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
As in the same example uy. cutting ae. it shall also cut io.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
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 Bedwell, William
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 Bedwell, William
Also among Mr. Stoppard’s most indelible achievements was “The Invention of Love,” his elegiac and beautifully compassionate play about the poet A.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
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
This week’s mini-episode finds Prudence visited by novelist A.E.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2020
Named for Laurence Housman — peace activist, suffragist and younger brother of the poet A.E.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
"A Woman's Voice" and "Forgiveness" are poems so simple that none may misunderstand; they have the human call so rare in "A.E.," but it is not a strong human call.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius
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