Ir
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Football, Ice Hockey. injured reserve.
Ending up on the IR so close to the end of the regular season may keep him off the ice for the entire Stanley Cup playoffs.
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intelligence ratio.
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Ireland.
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Irish.
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immediate reserve.
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infantry reserve.
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intelligence ratio.
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internal revenue.
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infrared
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(formerly, in Britain) Inland Revenue
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Iran (international car registration)
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Ireland
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Irish
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Example Sentences
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Baden-Baden received the Mayor with flags and cheering, despite the immediate outcropping of his ir- repressible tendency to jest�this time a decision that the town "ought to be called Good & Gooder."
From Time Magazine Archive
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It becomes il- before l; im- before b, m, and p; ir- before r.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The line of breakers ran for about a mile from southwest to northeast, and two hundred fathoms to the north of the ship an ir- regular mass of rocks formed a small islet.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules
During all this time the pris- 431:6 oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir- regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately after a heavy meal.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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