Ind
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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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It also touted a “direct employment presence in more than 20 states,” including a facility in Red Oak, Texas, and another in Los Angeles, plus plans for a new facility in Fort Wayne, Ind.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
That venture raised $5.7 billion in a sale of junk bonds, with proceeds going toward buying land and developing a 430 megawatt data-center complex in New Lebanon, Ind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
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
Billings hesitated an instant, but he felt sure that the General did not belong to the Army of the Cumberland, and he answered: "I belong to the 200th Ind."
From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by John McElroy
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
It bears only three letters, IND, being the last letters of the inscription; these plainly preserve a part of the name of the town, Lindum.
From Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield
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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
The several types of conjugation represented in Irish have become obscured, traces remaining only in the endings of the third sing. of the pres. ind., the pret. ind.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Has, haz, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
From same as No. 22; pres. ind. 1st plur. act.,
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
Hast, hast, 2d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In Noblesville, Ind., where the White River flows through the city’s downtown, more than 550 residential units were affected by the flood, said Mayor Chris Jensen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Federal inspectors detailed multiple instances of mammalian hair found in drugs produced at a Catalent plant in Bloomington, Ind., used in part to manufacture semaglutide.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Born on Feb. 3, 1941, in Hammond, Ind., Funk was the oldest of Dory and Dorothy Funk’s two sons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tearing down the eyesores “sparked a new energy and sense of pride,” said Wiseman, who lives in nearby Portage, Ind. ‘It was like a chain reaction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Leaflets ovate-oblong, pointed, cut-serrate; stipules small, awl-shaped, entire.—Rich woods, N. Y. to N. J. and Ga., west to Mich., Ind., and Mo. 2.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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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