AP
1 Americanabbreviation
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Apostle.
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Apothecaries'.
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April.
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account paid.
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accounts payable.
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authority to pay or purchase.
abbreviation
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additional premium.
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author's proof.
abbreviation
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Air Police
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Associated Press
abbreviation
prefix
prefix
Etymology
Origin of a.p.2
Latin: before a meal
Origin of ap3
from Welsh mab son
Example Sentences
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The City Council ap- proved the new district lines in December after reworking a significant portion of a draft map submitted several weeks earlier by a 21-member citizens commission.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2022
Hardly a Newspaper Upon Manhattan news stands ap- peared a new tabloid sheetlet.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With almost 175 cases per judge, the Fifth is now well beyond the 80 a year said to be tops for efficient ap- pellate judges.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Said Dr. Warren last week as morbid June 11 ap- proached: "We pray with them when they come, and we give them a Bible when they go."
From Time Magazine Archive
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A little while later I’m watching the boys play with sticks in a patch of grass at the edge of the driveway, when Mariana ap- proaches me.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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