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Also A.N.C. African National Congress.

Army Nurse Corps.

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Words nearby ANC

Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaya, anba, anbury, ANC, Ancaeus, Ancaster, -ance, ancestor, ancestor worship

Other definitions for ANC (2 of 2)

anc.

abbreviation

ancient.

How to use ANC in a sentence

Madikizela-Mandela, who is a prominent ANC MP, has denied the accusations.
Winnie on Nelson Mandela’s Final Moments|The Telegraph|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But does anyone think for a second that the ANC would have said no to American help had it been forthcoming?
Conservatives on the Wrong Side of History on Mandela, Most Other Things|Michael Tomasky|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Mandela as a leader in the ANC was among the many hundreds who were seized and jailed without trial.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But at home, where it mattered most, the ANC was a genuine, multiracial movement for democracy.
Don’t Sanitize Nelson Mandela: He’s Honored Now, But Was Hated Then|Peter Beinart|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST

For a young journalist in South Africa Nelson Mandela as a young ANC leader was a major source on the anti-apartheid struggle.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings|Benjamin Pogrund|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Supererant4 duo Anc fli, qu, aegr ferents s patern530 rgn fraudts esse,6 rg nsidis parvrunt.
Selections from Viri Romae|Charles Franois L'Homond
Cf. the parallel passage in the Senchus mòr astronomical tract, Anc.
The Poem-Book of the Gael|Various
Gulf of Astacus), penetrating between 40 and 50 m. into the interior as far as Ismid (anc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1|Various
The clause introduced by s e (because) is parallel in construction with frtwa, both being causal modifiers of scge anc.
Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book|C. Alphonso Smith
Arrone—though the ancient name does not occur in literature—the stream which forms the outlet to the lake of Bracciano, anc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 3|Various

British Dictionary definitions for ANC

ANC

abbreviation for

African National Congress

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