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UK
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[ US /ˈɔɹ, ɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɔɹ, ɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
-
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
How To Use OR In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
- Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
- Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
- These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.