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  • noun Plural form of ampersand.

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Examples

  • Now immigrants don ` t have to make that sort of commitment, and we have the phenomenon of what I call "ampersands," people who have two nationalities, two homes in different countries, and increasingly, two citizenships.

    Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity 2004

  • See here for more examples of its various forms, and here for my earlier post about ampersands.

    The curious land of the ampersand 2009

  • See here for more examples of its various forms, and here for my earlier post about ampersands.

    June « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

  • I can keep naming files with spaces and ampersands and colons cause you’ll fix it all for me!

    MPAA gets new anti-pirate guy 2009

  • Fill them with numbers, letters and symbols for which most of us don't even have names, like "ampersands" &.

    Judith Acosta: PIN Numbers for People Over 40 Judith Acosta 2011

  • Shambling indie combos named Something & The Somethings are a rarer commodity than they were in 2008 following the nation's distrust of ampersands and songs with too many words in them.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • See here for more examples of its various forms, and here for my earlier post about ampersands.

    7 day indoor market opening soon further info contact 2009

  • It attracted a handful of male fashion designers with a fondness for ampersands Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos of Shipley & Halmos; Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag & Bone and Andy Cohen of Bravo, though he left after a few handshakes and a warm embrace of the actress Catherine Keener for a date at a sushi restaurant in Chelsea.

    Surviving Fashion Week: Dinner for 40 Marshall Heyman 2011

  • * The use of ampersands in railroad company names, instead of the word and, has been adopted throughout for clarity.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • * The use of ampersands in railroad company names, instead of the word and, has been adopted throughout for clarity.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

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