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scandium.
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scale.
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scene.
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science.
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scientific.
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screw.
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scruple.
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sculpsit.
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Scotch.
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Scotland.
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Scots.
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Scottish.
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Printing. small capitals.
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supercalendered.
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Sanitary Corps.
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Security Council (of the U.N.).
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Signal Corps.
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South Carolina.
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Staff Corps.
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Supreme Court.
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Signal Corps
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South Carolina
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(in Canada) Star of Courage
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scene
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scilicet
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Etymology
Origin of sc.
From the Latin word scīlicet, contraction of scīre licet “it is permitted to know”
Example Sentences
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This effect was confirmed through ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, which revealed the migration pathways of protons near the Sc cation when transporting across the material.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
The MOF, one of four tested in a collaboration among scientists from Oregon State and Tiangong University in China, is based on scandium, chemical symbol Sc, and a carboxylate linker, TBAPy.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
In these Sc galaxies, luminous stars and emission nebulae are very prominent.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
For instance: ”Show Report for 06/08/2010: Act 1, Sc.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010
As far as responsibility goes, no one really wants it—but all of us are responsible to the community we live in Sc its laws.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Among them is Charter Amendment SC, which deals with campaign finance rules for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"It should be clear that setting off and firing fireworks is completely unacceptable and has no place in a football stadium whatsoever," SC Cambuur said.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The cargo ship Sparta is under Treasury Department sanctions, as is its owner, SC South LLC, and its parent company, Oboronlogistics LLC, which says its primary business is logistics for the Russian Defense Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The comments come at a delicate time for LAFC, which has let potential MLS wins slip away despite showing competitive moments recently against St. Louis City SC and Nashville SC.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Conversely, children were admitted to succeed their mother on her death intestate by the SC.
From The Institutes of Justinian by John Baron Moyle
Withdraw the board from the loops, twist these, and on the sc. work a second round of sc. with similar worsted, at the same time fastening in a chain stitch foundation worked with écru cotton.
From Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
In Act V, sc. ii, the vividness is given in a strangely pathetic passage, that haunts, after the play is laid down.
From William Shakespeare by John Masefield
Their province was confined to auxilii latio, sc. adversus consules.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
The three chief characters—the king, Queen Katharine of Arragon, and Cardinal Wolsey—bear clear marks of Shakespeare’s best workmanship; but only act i. sc. i., act ii. sc. iii. and iv.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
Henry IV., sec. part, act iv. sc. v.
From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport
D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sc. 1., says: "Rack is generally used for a body of clouds, or rather for the course of clouds in motion."
Irish, an armed foot-soldier; galore, gen., in abundance; gillie, Sc., a man-servant; gull, a name of various birds; hubbub, hubbaboo, Irish, a confused clamour; inch, Sc.,
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
The word has a common origin with Isl. ballaðr, Fr. boulet, Sc. boule, in Doug.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Sc. v., to which I know no parallel in the later tragedies.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
Make 2 ch., miss 1, 3 s.c. in the next ch. 2nd: Turn the work; 1 ch.,
From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown
To diminish at the end, do 2 rounds of white, like the previous; then 1 with only 4 chain; then 1 with 3 chain; and finally, a round with 2 chain between the s.c.
From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown
This is seen in section in Figure 7; s.c. is the neural groove; n.f., as before, the neural fold.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
X all round. 24th: X s.c. on s.c.,
From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown
The borders are done entirely in s.c., the beads being dropped on, according to the pattern, on the wrong side, this wrong side being the right when beads are used in crochet.
From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown
“The autopilot that got you to retirement is a great start. Retirement is when you take the wheel,” said Eileen Olson, founder of Emerald Wealth in Daufuskie Island, S.C.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Disclosures: S.C. holds patents or pending patents on PD-L2 at Mayo Clinic and Spanish National Cancer Research Center, some of which have been licensed to Rejuveron Senescence Therapeutics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
When I moved to Columbia, S.C., as a college freshman, the city of less than 150,000 overwhelmed me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Jason Williams, 50, of Clover, S.C., acquired the card after spending $515 to land a spot on RhodyBreakers, a retail shop affiliate that opens boxes of trading cards on a livestream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I was born a slave of old Marster John Durham, on a plantation 'bout five miles east of Blackstock, S.C.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
Being a clemson fan and born and raised in the town where sc state is located I have to comment.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2016
They wanted enough change, sc that while remaining in the Navy the air service would be free from interference from non-flying officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air came up warmer a id sweeter every moment, sc sweet that it almost brought the tears to your eyes.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
In “Loyal Subject,” by Beaumont and Fletcher, act iii., sc.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
That Maeterlinck was meditating the famous chapter on "Silence" in The Treasure of the Humble when he wrote Princess Maleine may be inferred from Act ii. sc.
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell
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