Example sentences for: tbdne

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  • A careful estimate indicates that the TBDNE contains about 9,000 headwords with an additional 2,000 or so other entry words; of these 11,000 or so entries, some 2,300 (about 21%) are phrasal.

  • TBDNE is an amalgamation and continuation, with “many of the entries found in the two earlier books of this series (both now out of print).

  • A randomly chosen span of 50 full entries in the TBDNE , from pill to platinum , was compared against the same alphabetic span in the 1963 and 1980 dictionaries:

  • Technical terms such as pinealectomy , planetology , and planktotrophic are of low frequency or have only specialized use, so were understandably dropped in compiling the TBDNE (indeed, it is more notable that they were ever included at all).

  • Entries for pipe bomb , ( in the ) pipeline, pita , and placebo effect , plasma jet , and platform tennis , all in the 1963 book, were doubtless dropped because they all are entered in current general-language dictionaries, and so are no longer required in the TBDNE, given its stated intention.


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