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Recent Examples of ed from the Web
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Despite the school pressuring its social organizations to go co-ed, Harvard's Fox Club has revoked the provisional memberships of nine women, and effectively returned to being an all-male association.
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Q: Our board of directors recently decided to terminate our agency's executive director and temporarily elevate our CFO into the ED position.
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A few days later, Times op-ed columnist Charles M. Blow criticized Democrats for overreaching in their attempt to cast blame on Palin.
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Chicago Dyke March has since issued a statement and one of the flag-carriers has written an op-ed for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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The kid ends up getting buffeted — blown about, not smorgasbord-ed — by words and different requests or imperatives.
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In an op-ed for Newsweek, Schoettes, counsel and HIV project director at Lambda Legal, said the White House had not sought the council's input when formulating HIV policy.
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But Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced in a May 22 Wall Street Journal op-ed that large portions of the rule would take effect June 9.
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Jay Ambrose is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service.
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First Known Use of ed
1954
Other Education Terms
ed
Definition of ed
edited; edition; editor
Other Education Terms
-ed
Definition of -ed
1 —used to form the past participle of regular weak verbs ended faded tried patted
2 —used to form adjectives of identical meaning from Latin-derived adjectives ending in -ate crenulated
3a : having : characterized by cultured two-leggedb : having the characteristics of bigoted
Origin and Etymology of -ed
Middle English, from Old English -ed, -od, -ad; akin to Old High German -t, past participle ending, Latin -tus, Greek -tos, suffix forming verbals
-ed
Definition of -ed
—used to form the past tense of regular weak verbs judged denied dropped
Origin and Etymology of -ed
Middle English -ede, -de, from Old English -de, -ede, -ode, -ade; akin to Old High German -ta, past ending (1st singular) and probably to Old High German -t, past participle ending
ED Defined for English Language Learners
-ED Defined for Kids
-ed
Definition of -ed for Students
1 —used to form the past participle of verbs faded tried
2 : having : showing cultured
3 : having the characteristics of dogged
-ed
Definition of -ed for Students
—used to form the past tense of verbs judged denied dropped
Medical Dictionary
ED
Medical Definition of ED
1effective dose
2emergency department
4erythema dose
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