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  • Rae
    Rae
    noun
    John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
  • RAE
    RAE
    abbreviation
    Royal Aircraft Establishment

Rae

American  
[ray] / reɪ /

noun

  1. John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.

  2. a male given name, form of Raymond or Ray.

  3. a female given name, form of Rachel.


RAE British  

abbreviation

  1. Royal Aircraft Establishment

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Alongside Mandell, the play also starred 89-year-old James Greene and Charlotte Rae, 90.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said the Millers had never met or interacted with Burgwald or Rae.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Police later confirmed that Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Makai Saddington, 18, Theo Rae, 17, and 17-year-old Cole Robert Worthy were all in the car on the wrong side of the A66.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Nicole Rae, senior director of social media at golf-focused media company Pro Shop, posted her disappointment on X.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

A few seconds later, Papi calls up the stairs: “Jupiter, Cuatro and Rae are here! I told them to come in, but they said they’d rather wait outside.”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

The IOP and RAE are calling for financial support for the sector in the UK.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2023

A robot named Kevin is located at the Maryland Science Center, and one named RAE, which stands for Remote Aquarium Explorer, is at the National Aquarium.

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2021

Overall, RAE felt the project was a success, though re-entry into normal life was a challenge.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2018

The director of the RAE, Darío Villanueva, described Judeo-Spanish as “an extraordinarily important cultural and historical phenomenon” that was overdue an academy of its own.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2017

With kindest regards, good-by for now, from RAE.

From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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