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  Se

  selenium.
• SE
  SE

  southeast.
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  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

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026

"This is the biggest scandal the Norwegian royals ever had," says Andersen's colleague and current Se og Hør editor-in-chief Niklas Kokkinn-Thoresen, who covered the arrest with him at the time.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 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

The bank rates Porsche SE stock at buy with a 43 euro target price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

Porsche SE shares are down 23% year-to-date, reflecting the decline in its core Volkswagen holding, in which it owns a 53.1% stake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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

A second fork of animated lightning sliced across the screen, there was a swirl of clouds, and then in burning red the letters SE, the logo of Sayle Enterprises.

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

It’s as if deep inside I’ve known these things already, these se- crets to a happy life, but here they are, written out so that I won’t ever forget or doubt.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

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

It doesn’t make them bad people, per se, and it doesn’t necessarily mean one person deserves more of their parent’s estate than another.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

“We have an eternal debt to them that has never been paid. Sí se puede.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

They didn’t eliminate it per se, but they turned it into a pro forma, symbolic chamber.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

For example, he chose the shapes D, R, b, h to represent the Cherokee syllables a, e, si, and ni, respectively, while the shape of the numeral 4 was borrowed for the syllable se.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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