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  Se

  selenium.
• SE
  SE

  southeast.
• se-
  se-

  a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “apart”.
• se
  se

  abbreviation

  Sweden

Se

¹ American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. selenium.

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SE ² American  

Or S.E.

1. southeast.

2. southeastern.

3. Standard English.

4. special edition.

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se- ³ American  

1. a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “apart”.

   seduce; select.

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Se ¹ British  

symbol

1. selenium

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SE ² British  

symbol

1. southeast(ern)

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se ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Sweden

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Etymology

Origin of se-

< Latin sē ( d ) (preposition), sē- (prefix) without, apart

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Example Sentences

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Its chef, Joe Cash, an alum of New York’s Per Se and Copenhagen’s Noma, took inspiration from both French bistros and American steakhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

But they also encounter an authoritarian society, Ba Sing Se, where a shadow government maintains control over its population by censoring free expression.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

The band recorded the song alongside Grupo Frontera, who earlier that year had reached TikTok popularity for the cumbia nortena spin on “No Se Va,” a 2018 pop song by the Colombian band Morat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Building on this, the researchers explored whether adding NAC or Se to the diet could counteract those effects.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

I was an empty house with a sign in front, Se Vende, For Sale.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

SE Kitchen is due to open at the Pentagon Shopping Centre in Chatham in October, adding to branches in Ashford and Ramsgate.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Launched in February, the fund owns big European industrials and defense suppliers such as Rhinemetall AG, BAE Systems PLC, Airbus SE, and Safran SA.

From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026

Find insight on Honda, Porsche SE, Jet2, and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Auto and Transport sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Morgan SE systematically failed to submit suspicious activity reports in a timely manner in the period from October 2021 through September 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

A guard in a blue-and-gray uniform with SE printed on his jacket waved them through.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

‘We might still have a chance. Mr Kulagin’s injury is not se- vere, it is the third shot coming up already, and Mr Shaw-Asquith may declare satisfaction afterwards.’

From The Verge ● Jun. 17, 2018

Says Reeves: "So far, this is the most accurate computer- generated se- quence that demonstrates the interaction between waves and the beach."

From Time Magazine Archive

Angela found the se- quined spectacles, wiped off the wet, crystalline mess, and placed them on her partner's nose.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

“Matilde, we never laughed together as teenagers or told each other se- crets or talked about crushes on guys.”

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

March 27-—Now that Im starting to have those dreams and remembiring Prof Nemur says I got to go to theripy se- sions with Dr Strauss.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Davis Allen se colocó en el backfield y recibió un pase de Stafford, pero los Cardinals lo detuvieron sin que ganara yardas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

She added that she was not against using AI per se to check entries, but she was "against is it being used as a final arbiter in this case".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But Bill Huffman, Nuveen’s CEO, didn’t see it as necessary per se, he explained when he stopped by the WSJ Leadership Institute’s offices last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There’s no harm in that per se, but you’ll have to forgive my irritation with Sudeikis, Lawrence, Hunt and fellow executive producer and showrunner Joe Kelly’s clumsiness with the team’s most complicated working relationship.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Variation and natural selection offer cogent explanations of the mechanism by which evolution might occur within a species, but they do not explain the formation of species per se.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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