'tis
Americancontraction
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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“Well, see … Your Majesty … ’tis a strange business.
From Literature
“That’s part of the magic, Your Majesty. Not even I have seen her do it, and she does it right in my own house. But, mark me, you give her a pile of straw, a roomful of straw, and the next morning she’s spun it to gold! ’Tis a marvel.”
From Literature
The Japanese Nikkei 225 was down 0.8% at the open, as information technology provider TIS tumbled close to 16%.
Emily Dickinson observes that “Not ‘Revelation’—’tis—that waits, / but our unfurnished eyes.”
From Los Angeles Times
Larry Jeddeloh is the editor of The Institutional Strategist and founder of TIS Group, an independent global macro research service covering global stocks and other financial markets.
From MarketWatch
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