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OED had been looking for a similar building for nearly a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
With M5 Creative, OED hopes to lure prospective filmmakers and production teams to Seattle Center, providing additional work sources for Seattle moviemakers and film crews.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The first examples of ‘theory’ and ‘theorize’ in the relevant sense in OED are from 1638.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It got as far as the Supplement volume of the new OED, which is something, but not enough to assure survival.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
P. 174, "cotemporaries" retained; per OED, this was a common period variant for contemporaries.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.
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