OED
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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 space could be replicated in other locations,” said Erika Lindsay, OED communications director.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024
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
The first examples of ‘theory’ and ‘theorize’ in the relevant sense in OED are from 1638.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Thou shalt lay upon her then From both thy hands a row of olive-twigs— Counting thrice nine in all—and add this prayer— OED.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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