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ss
ss(in prescriptions) a half.
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ss.abbreviationto wit; namely (used especially on legal documents, as an affidavit, pleading, etc., to verify the place of action).
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SS.abbreviationSaints.
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S/S
S/Sabbreviationsame size.
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S.S.
S.S.abbreviation(in prescriptions) in the strict sense.
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sections.
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Baseball. shortstop.
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a paramilitary organization within the Nazi party that provided Hitler's bodyguard, security forces including the Gestapo, concentration camp guards, and a corp of combat troops (the Waffen-SS) in World War II
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Sunday school
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Etymology
Origin of ss1
From the Latin word sēmis
Origin of ss.3
From the Latin word scīlicet, contraction of scīre licet “it is permitted to know”
Origin of SS.5
From the Latin word sānctī
Origin of S.S.8
From Latin sēnsū strictō
Example Sentences
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She ultimately settled down with Lisa Hintelmann, a former magazine editor who ss the director of talent and entertainment partnerships at Audible.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2017
Until then, they are ss screening phone calls and keeping the television turned off.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
M ss ng P eces has nine employees, and Kuschnir expects they all would have voted even without a day off to do it.
From Inc ● Nov. 2, 2012
He demonstrated this by making an odd whistling noise, which sounded something like "s, s, ss, ss, s".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2011
“Let’s see, where were we?” ss “Harry was about to use his cloak.”
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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In 1916, the Canadian ship SS Mount Temple was sunk by a German ship.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
SS: No. I think my favorite part of watching people interact with the pieces is what they bring to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
I executed a couple of full-power stops from highway speeds—tires chirping, brake pedal chattering—and our SS slowed up, hard, straight and true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Mengele was a doctor who served in Germany's Waffen SS.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
To do so, they created an elite teenage division of the Waffen-SS, called the 12th SS Panzer Grenadier Hitlerjugend Division, or SS-HJ.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The Local Government Act 1888, ss. 50-63, contains provisions for the alteration of local areas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
No. 55 of 1893, ss. 175-187; British Columbia, Revised Statutes, 1897, c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
Werke, Bd. vi, ss. 45-6, 92-5, 254-5, by a careful comparison of which passages his real intent will become apparent.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
New Castle county, ss., the State of Delaware to Wm.
See also, ss. 389-95, for a review of the interpretation of the great Shaksperian roles by German actors like Schröder and Fleck.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
“Your place is with the victims of the SS. The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2016
Sirs: I should like to know your authority for the abbreviation SS. for Saints.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"I can see you don't believe me. But it's true. The British. They're rounding up the SS. We are free."
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Sbaralea puts forth doubts as to the authenticity of this privilege, the text of which he gives; wrongly, I think, for Clara alludes to it in her will, A. SS., p.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
From the searches I have made upon this question, it seems to me that these SS. are taken as a short way of expressing the "SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS" of the Salisbury liturgy and ritual.
From Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
In S/S ’12 Supreme made a shirt eerily similar.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2017
The prosthetic legs Lee designed for me to wear to open his S/S 99 show were on display in the Cabinet of Curiosities.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He's also the face of Prada's S/S 2013 campaign.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2013
Next door, Rei Kawakubo designed the unusual scenography for "Comme des Garçons, White Drama," which showcases her all-white S/S '12 collection ensconced in large-scale bubble formations.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2012
Browns: 40 years of fashion inspiration Models Eva Herzigova in Mark Fast S/S 09 and Claudia Schiffer in Erdem S/S 07 Photograph: Helen Seamons/Observer In fashion circles, Browns is a heavyweight name.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2010
In the late 1920s, Ronald Knox and S.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
You wouldn’t have to grind your teeth when India overlooks Payal Kapadia’s dreamy “All We Imagine As Light” or S.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
"The study reveals where in the chain the greatest risks lie. It can be a tool to counteract illegal logging," says Caroline S.S.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
But the ending is different for the S.S.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
I’ll never forget that tall, lonely figure standing on the sea wall The S.S.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
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