- a variation of drch..
dr
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debit.
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debtor.
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drachma; drachmas.
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dram; drams.
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drawer.
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drum.
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Doctor.
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Drive (used in street names).
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debtor
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Also: dr.. dram
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drawer
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debit
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Also: dr. dram
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(the former) drachma
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Doctor
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(in street names) Drive
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Together with colleagues from Wageningen University and 12 other research institutions from the US, France, Argentina, Italy and Chile, dr.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
According to Vulture, in 2022, Petras tweeted in response to a fan asking her to “stop defending dr luke” by writing, “I have nothing to say or be ashamed of at all.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In this notation, P, Q, and R are functions, and we think of dr as vector 〈 dx, dy, dz 〉 .
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
We need to find the value of ∫CF · dr.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
He shook Horace by the jaw and shouted, “What dr aw erf!”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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"One of the big things we've done in the past 10 years is try and turn this into a performance-related conversation," Dr Nigel Jones, British Cycling chief medical officer, tells BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Dr Nicky Keay, an expert in hormone health, says many of these symptoms stem from hormonal disruption caused by insufficient energy intake.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The children's father Dr Abdul Shakoor, who was the only survivor that night, says he fears he will die before the case is solved.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The lifelong inflammatory condition affects genitals and can cause white patches to form with itching, soreness, splitting and tears, says Dr Nighat Arif, a GP specialising in women's health.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The contents of his kitchen—canned goods, six-packs of Dr Pepper, unopened bags of Lay’s—sat in boxes next to the front door.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Uganda had reported two Ebola deaths shortly after the outbreak was reported in DR Congo, but the WHO has since declared it to be free of the disease.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
More than 4,000 people have died since Ebola was confirmed in DR Congo in May, making it the second most deadly outbreak of the disease.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
On Friday, Kabila accused President Félix Tshisekedi's government of disregarding proposals he had put forward last year, including some aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
More than 4,000 people have died from Ebola in DR Congo this year, in what is the second most deadly known outbreak to date.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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"A few months ago my dr. was doing some routine lab work and found that I was anemic," Monroe captioned her post.
From Fox News ● Jul. 13, 2021
We've asked and invited her to engage more but the excuses just multiply - I ache, I have a meeting, I have a dr. appointment, the list goes on and on.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
Shortly after mid-day, while the sun beats strongly upon the terrace, abud is working dexterously at the rose trees. dr. remnant comes down the steps, hatted, and carrying a stick and a book.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
I will soon remouve my dr. mistres jelousies, if she has any .
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
In return for these advantages to the growers the company is entitled to receive 7 dr. on every 1000 ℔ of currants produced and to dispose of the whole retained amount.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
“Sometimes in medicine we do all the right things, and diseases progress and other things develop,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The first known specimen was found in the late 1990s by Dr. Burkhard Pohl, founder of the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said federal officials took action after they grew concerned about the rapid expansion of California’s personal care services program in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Jesse Watters can’t seem to stop admiring Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
"I think you have been shown that the subsequent history and progress of the case only warrant us in saying that physically, the recovery was quite complete," says Dr. Harlow.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Fresh off closing its $6.8 billion deal for home builder Taylor Morrison, Berkshire Hathaway bought a new, albeit small, stake in D.R.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Oh D.R. me that was close!" it laments.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Celebrity justice in the D.R. can be perplexing, and Judge José Antonio Núñez admitted as much.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
A new single-family home that was purchased from homebuilder D.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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