Ind
1 Americanabbreviation
abbreviation
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independence.
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independent.
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index.
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indicated.
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indicative.
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indigo.
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indirect.
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industrial.
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industry.
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Independent
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India
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Indian
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Indiana
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Also: IDN. in nomine Dei
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India (international car registration)
Etymology
Origin of Ind1
1175–1225; Middle English Inde < Old French Inde < Latin India India
Origin of I.N.D.6
From Latin in nōmine Deī
Example Sentences
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The company’s headquarters are in Troy, Mich., and its vehicles will be produced in Warsaw, Ind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
"A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter" in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
While college basketball’s other superstars play musical chairs and top programs rebuild their entire rosters every offseason, he has decided again and again that the grass isn’t any greener away from West Lafayette, Ind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
She stars as a commercial cleaner in her latest film project, “We Strangers,” an observation on assimilation, code switching and belonging in Gary, Ind.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
At last a form separated itself from the bank of blackness on the left, and a voice said in a penetrating whisper: "Is this the 200th Ind?"
From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John
The stockpile also contains millions of doses of another vaccine, called ACAM2000, which is approved for smallpox and available for monkeypox under an IND.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2022
Dubbing itself Saving IND, an alumni-led group obtained hundreds of signatures on an online petition supporting efforts to keep the school open.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
Are there ways for companies to deal with the difficulty to gain IND approvals in China?
From Forbes ● Apr. 29, 2015
The agency decided, for the time being, not to enforce the IND requirement for recurrent C. difficile infections.
From Nature ● Feb. 19, 2014
One sixth part of the paradigm, thus recited, gives in general a fair sample of the whole: and, in class recitations, this mode of rehearsal will save much time: as, IND.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
From same as No. 22; pres. ind. 1st plur. act.,
From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James
On another plant of A. ind. variegata a perfect flower of A. ind. lateritia was produced; so that both gledstanesii and lateritia no doubt originally appeared as sporting branches of A. ind. variegata.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
Pres. part. in ind. ge of past part. turned into i or y. 3d plural in en.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
This word was used in Middle English as a noun, and regularly as the 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of the verb "uprise."
From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The following are the forms of this peculiar word:— In Mœso-Gothic, 1 sing. pres. ind. v�it; 2. do.,
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
He shared a first name with his father, a Baptist minister and a leader of the Black community in Terre Haute, Ind. His older siblings were A students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But the wind-up alarm clock won’t disappear entirely, says Bill Stoddard, who repairs and sells clocks at his shop in Flora, Ind. After all, he points out, “the Amish people buy clocks.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Gas prices are part of the reason John Raisor, who lives in Madison, Ind., a small town about an hour outside Louisville, Ky., stopped using dating apps.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Once we’ve shaken hands on this unavoidable tension, we can wrestle with Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” an open-hearted biopic of Jackson, extending from his boyhood in Gary, Ind., to the late-’80s tour for “Bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Not long since, there fell near Romney, Ind., an aërolite in a liquid, or molten state, which flew into fragments the moment it struck the earth's surface.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
Six weeks later, in July, 2013, the F.D.A. declared an exception for doctors treating recurrent C. difficile: they would be allowed to perform fecal transplants without an I.N.D.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
In order to offer it to patients, doctors would need to file an investigational new-drug application, or I.N.D., and obtain the agency’s permission.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
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