USAN
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abbr.
United States Adopted Names (used for nonproprietary names of drugs adopted by a committee of medical professionals and drug manufacturers)
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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Example sentences from the Web for USAN
En estas, y semejantes impersonales, usan los Indios de esta lengua: Aragne nuc me; Arastap nuc me.
A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun Language, Spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California|Father Felipe Arroyo de la CuestaEl Vestido es galano y honesto, su vestires algodon o medriñaque y tambien usan seda, trayda de la çhina y de otras partes.
If wild things were not meant for the wilds, the god, Usan, would not have placed them there.
The Story of Geronimo|James Arthur Kjelgaard