o'er
preposition
contraction of over.
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o'er
1 American
[awr, ohr]
/ ɔr, oʊr /
preposition
Literary.
OER
2
American
o'er
British
/ əʊə, ɔː /
preposition
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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2022
Hamlet did not want his capacity for action to be “sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
It would also be neat if it was, you know, a decent song, which a citizen could sing without crashing into an o’er or a thee, or being asked to pole vault across octaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2020
The radiators were giving off that hot iron smell, sort of like a southwest wind that blisters you all o’er.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
And unlike many prices collected in the CPI, rent and OER are based on survey panels that are conducted every six months.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Since housing expenses are 35 percent of the CPI, and OER alone 25 percent, even small inaccuracies can significantly affect the overall inflation number.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026
Using this AI, the team was able to identify new, effective OER electrocatalytic materials from about 3,000 candidate materials in just a single month.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2024
Asked who permitted Gilbert’s new award, OER said the institute or center funding the grant—in this case, NCI—“carry out preaward risk assessments” and send awards out the door.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2023
Furthermore, OER-converted GDP is not well suited to comparing domestic GDP over time, since appreciation/depreciation from one year to the next will make the OER GDP value rise/fall regardless of whether home-currency-denominated GDP changed.
From The 2006 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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