LS
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Licentiate in Surgery.
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Linnaean Society.
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the place of the seal, as on a document; locus sigilli. Also l.s.
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Etymology
Origin of ls
from Latin locus sigilli
Example Sentences
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Linkedln: If you try to post a profile here, clearly you didn’t check your I’s and l’s to watch for phishing sites, so you don’t deserve a cybersecurity job anyway.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022
Curving columns of lower-case l’s make the sides of the face.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020
My 2-year-old daughter Claudia cannot articulate r’s or l’s properly and falls asleep sucking on the ear of a putrid stuffed sheep.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2015
Or ‘you are sooo ugly’ — but with 10 u’s, 10 g’s, 10 l’s, like they’re all screaming it at someone.”
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010
He turned red, thinking of his trouble with long a’s, th’s, l’s, consonants at the ends of words.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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