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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Bible Isaiah
  • abbreviation island
  • abbreviation isle

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Examples

  • God is that which Is -- YHVH, one of the main Hebrew terms for this Reality, might even be translated "Is."

    Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself 2009

  • It's like watching a movie for the 20'th time... we get bored with what "Is."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and Twitter into the URL shortening business is a good thing for consumers looking for a reliable service that will be around for a long time, it could be a death knell for smaller URL link players such as Is. gd and TinyURL.

    PCWorld 2010

  • God is that which Is -- YHVH, one of the main Hebrew terms for this Reality, might even be translated "Is."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Pink clearly stacks the deck in favor of Type Is. And that's the one problem with this fascinating book — it's a little thin on evidence supporting the Motivation 3.0 thesis.

    'Drive' author Daniel Pink: Raises make bad motivators 2010

  • Yes, It Is. Posted by bigwords88 on December 18, 2009

    Is It Really That Big? Damn. Yes, It Is. « The Graveyard 2009

  • I spent some time beforehand talking with a youngish software engineer whom I know slightly and who's lent me Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is. A thoroughly rational creature - I think.

    Cosmic mysteries L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • Yes, It Is. Posted by bigwords88 on December 18, 2009

    2009 December « The Graveyard 2009

  • I spent some time beforehand talking with a youngish software engineer whom I know slightly and who's lent me Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is. A thoroughly rational creature - I think.

    Archive 2009-05-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

  • They don't actually think about * why* following the rules is nice rather than nasty; they just "know" that it's nice or nasty ... um ... cause That's The Way It Is. I'd gut them like slaughtered lambs on the stone table * waaaaay* before Edmund.

    Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009

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