deb
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Advocates there are now asking for $3 billion more for utility and water deb relief.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
"As Sally Bowles, the English deb turned devil-may-care show-girl, Buckley achieves no smaller feat: she makes you laugh, breaks your heart, has you hanging on her every word - sung or otherwise," he continued.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2021
Ellin Mackay, deb extraordinaire, married Irving Berlin, the most famous songwriter in the world, six weeks after her article on cabarets appeared.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
With obvious iconographic exceptions—nights at jazz clubs and deb balls and such—the mood of the dry martini chimes with the indulgent corporate lunchtime and the lilac relief of cocktail hour.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2013
At all events it seems to be the origin of the modern Edfu, which, of course, has nothing to do with the verb deb, “to pierce.”
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
"A debs balls is supposed to be a night of great celebration," said Ms Hogan.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2023
It is understood the young people were on their way to a secondary school debs ball.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
Also considering the low interest rate of the government bond the country can benefit of a cheatty restructuring of its debs.
From Economist ● Nov. 15, 2012
For a second they stared daggers at each other, like two debs who wore the same Paris original to the cotillion.
From Time ● Jun. 1, 2012
The crowd doesn’t know me very well yet, but nearly all of the debs have been really ‘out’ for two or three years.
From Girl Alone by Austin, Anne
