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Example sentences for: sic
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Readers should be familiar with Robert Claiborne's earlier books, especially Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language . One might say that subtitling the present book “A Book of Lost Metaphors” is an example of a loose canon [sic] — unless metaphor is taken in its broadest sense—but one is unlikely to find red herrings here: the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.
To all, please understand that SIC!³s arrive in such profusion that we cannot acknowledge their receipt.
The average hourly earnings of U.S. employees in textile mill products (SIC 22) went from $4.
They're the only guides we are discussing that didn't originate in the United States, and are still largely targeted at travelers from Australia and the British Isles: "New Yorkers feel a great affinity to [ sic ] their subway tokens, akin to what Americans in general feel about their useless one-cent coin ..."
-- After my infant son has done one of those cute things that portend a definitely-not-ordinary childhood, my mother-in-law asks, “What would Mr. [ sic ] Spock say?”
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