spec
Example Sentences
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“The idea is: Okay, we tested it, it’s perfectly good heavy water. It meets spec. We’ll buy a little of this,” U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2016
He does, however, object to the second: "As a name of opprobrium or reprobation; spec. applied to a grasping or extortionate moneylender or usurer, or a trader who drives hard bargains or deals craftily."
From Time Magazine Archive
More mihte doð ure helende þenne þe holi word þe he þurh his muð spec. þanne he giueð mannes cuinde.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
Report to the Indian Commissioner. 33rd Cong., spec. sess.,
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
Report to the Indian Commissioner. 33rd Cong., spec. sess.,
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
