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Examples

  • I anticipate the burning of our sea ports, havoc of our frontiers, household insurgency, with a long train of et ceteras, which is enough for a man to have met once in his life.

    Letters 1760

  • When you've read all the notes and done all the research, what is there to discuss other than a 'recapitulation' and other miscellaneous et ceteras?

    rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2008

  • At the upper end of the room was a table, with a white cloth upon it, well covered with a roast fowl, bacon, ale, and et ceteras; and at the table sat Mr. Tupman, looking as unlike a man who had taken his leave of the world, as possible.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • There is no reference to Mary Wollstonecraft; it seems as if her life and all its storms had been swept away in one of those compendious et ceteras, and yet the next sentence reads like an unconscious comment.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • Dusty and seedy somewhat, as men are after a journey, I chatted with Mark and the noble peer for a few minutes at the door, while my valise and et ceteras were lifted in and hurried up the stairs to my room, whither I followed them.

    Wylder's Hand 2003

  • What I won't admit to anybody but you folks (hanger-ons, stalkers, friends, passerby, internet whackem offs, and et ceteras) is that I don't know Wordsworth from wormswood or Shelley from Shel Silverstein (scratch, I KNOW me some Silverstein).

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

  • New York, of course, befuddled me until I couldn't keep track of my wallet; which contained the greastest collection of gum wrappers, taco bell receipts, ticket stubs, lint bolles, and the et ceteras I had.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

  • The shranding process started to get up my nose earlier this year when, in the marketing coup of the century, Target supplied all the tantalizing housewares and et ceteras to the Pagong and Tagi tribes on Survivor.

    I Visit the Target in Queens and the Gophers Are Groovy 2000

  • After that, she was obliged to describe where she had been the night before her husband's death, the mode of transportation which had brought her home, and more et ceteras? all, in short, that she'd told Lord Quentin and the magistrate, repeatedly.

    Captives Of The Night Chase, Loretta 1994

  • All the et ceteras that eventually became compounded into a reasoning, logical, informed citizen.

    the ship who sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

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  • From the looks of the examples this listing is a product of et cetera being broken up and cetera construed to be a separate word.

    Although, reviewing the latin from wikipedia cetera should mean "the rest"

    February 20, 2013

  • It makes me think of ceteris paribus.

    February 20, 2013

  • English is a living language: words evolve every generation.

    If we didn't have a living language, we'd all be speaking Greek.

    February 20, 2013

  • Weird Twitter meme.

    "Stack cheddars forever, live treacherous all the et ceteras."

    Long form:

    "Ahh, who wanna bet us that we don't touch leathers Stack cheddars forever, live treacherous all the et ceteras."

    February 20, 2013

  • it's Lyrics from Jay Z

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYIsa_u_C-s

    February 20, 2013