deb

Example Sentences

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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)