SAE
Americanabbreviation
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self-addressed envelope.
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Society of Automotive Engineers.
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Chiefly British. stamped addressed envelope.
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“There was a mystique around it—the Cornell SAE people, that was a demographic within SpaceX,” said Charlotte Kiang, a former SpaceX employee who earned a master’s in engineering from the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
It’s been independently evaluated by the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Assn., and Pivotal’s quality management system has received a certification from SAE International, which sets aviation safety standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Most of the boys got suspended sentences, the Kappa Alpha Order is back on campus, and SAE never left.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024
The SAE is also developing technical guidelines for what’s known as “dynamic inductive charging” — i.e. charging without a plug when a vehicle is in motion.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Finally, the SAE module helps ensure semantic alignment between both data representations during the fusion process, which mitigates the issue of feature ambiguity.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
I sae all the jokes Michelle Wolf made about Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2018
But Burns' spirit still has the fire to reply: O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Your neebours' fauts and folly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Moi faether used tae sae: ‘Wool en tae mouth and wool en tae head.’
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Patie.—What reason, Sir, can an auld woman have To tell a lie when she's sae near her grave?
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
Says Tweed to Till, 'What gars ye rin sae still?'
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
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