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etcetera

[et-set-er-uh, -se-truh] / ɛtˈsɛt ər ə, -ˈsɛ trə /
NOUN
odds and ends
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"If major investors, particularly in infrastructure, technology, real estate, etcetera, no longer believe that their investments are safe this would have a much more significant impact and the diversification plans of the UAE," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

Not long afterward Dorothy comes on the scene with a bucket of water, etcetera, etcetera.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

“It was Dutch police, it was Dutch moving companies, Dutch transportation, Dutch railways, etcetera, etcetera,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

How is Kylian taking this early substitution etcetera?

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024

Theft rates on the trailer are based on a flat charge of twenty-five cents per hundred dollars of insurance taken, regardless of age, list price, etcetera.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

One word was regarded in the late-18th and 19th centuries as so shocking that it was variously rendered "inexpressibles", "indescribables", "etceteras", "unmentionables", "ineffables", "indispensables", "innominables" "inexplicables" and "continuations".

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

Four hours will amply cover picking the kids up, cleaning the flat, eating, washing and the various etceteras.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2013

This elfin-looking man, usually dressed in a red-plaid shirt, ventured out into the unfamiliar with tape recorder in hand and spoke with people whom he liked to call the etceteras of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there would be no limit to what our Lord would want of Patria Mercedes, body and soul and all the etceteras besides.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

No conversation could have survived such an inroad, and by the time Miss Lupin had asked if she should remove the tea etceteras, the review of Pomona's family was forgotten, and Destiny was baffled.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan




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