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LES

American  

abbreviation

  1. lower esophageal sphincter.


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Neither Potter nor Nothnagel are racking up LES bills with their personal collections.

From Washington Times Mar. 18, 2017

LES CAYES, Haiti — A hospital now a shambles, its floors swamped with garbage and water, absent electricity.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2016

In fact, Bowie is such a fan of the written word, reports the LES, that if he hadn’t become a musician, he’d have chosen a career as a novelist.

From Time Oct. 3, 2013

Most other proposed transactions in the global exchanges industry, including bids by the LES, Singapore Exchange Ltd and Nasdaq OMX Group, have since failed.

From Reuters Jan. 11, 2012

It is to something of all this that Victor Hugo wishes to open men's eyes in LES MISERABLES; and this moral lesson is worked out in masterly coincidence with the artistic effect.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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