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  • proper noun A constructed language; a reform of Esperanto.

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Examples

  • Kihon Ho (the basic transport law) bill to the Diet next year, which would incorporate the idea of Ido-ken (the right to mobility) for the first time, it has so far done little to improve disabled people's access to air transport.

    Rolling Rains Report 2010

  • It was followed in the early 20th Century by an invented language called Ido which had less appeal and a short life.

    Orangeville Citizen 2010

  • In a recent interview during a break from the show's West Coast open auditions, the bubbly, often-rambling 48-year-old former Laker girl discussed whether she'll be tuning into the upcoming 10th season of "Ido," and compared "Live to Dance" to all those other reality TV dance competitions.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • BTW, esperanto is so 1960's … having been replaced by "Ido" that drops the obligatory accusative case and eliminates the requirement for agreement with adjectives and nouns.

    Watts Up With That? 2009

  • "I love what Ido and I feel very lucky": Jodie Harsh and his dog Hayden in their Shoreditch flat.

    A room of my own: Jodie Harsh 2012

  • They bring together mostly under-35-year-old movers and shakers -- from artists like filmmaker Jonathan Segal; to entrepreneurs like Yes To founder Ido Leffler; to changemakers like Lulan Artisans visionary Eve Blossom.

    MeiMei Fox: The Life Out Loud: On a High From Summit Basecamp MeiMei Fox 2012

  • In a Democracy Now! interview before the U.S. ship "The Audacity of Hope" left a port in Greece, Consul General of Israel in New York Ido Aharoni defends the Israeli government's campaign against the flotilla, claiming there is no need for humanitarian aid to be shipped to Gaza now that Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing.

    Democracy Now!: Israeli Official Calls Gaza Flotilla a "Provocation" and Refuses to Deny Israeli Role in Sabotage of Boats Democracy Now! 2011

  • One pretty standard citation in political science here is Ido Oren, “The Subjectivity of the ‘Democratic’ Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany,” International Security, Vol. 20, no.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

  • In a Democracy Now! interview before the U.S. ship "The Audacity of Hope" left a port in Greece, Consul General of Israel in New York Ido Aharoni defends the Israeli government's campaign against the flotilla, claiming there is no need for humanitarian aid to be shipped to Gaza now that Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing.

    Democracy Now!: Israeli Official Calls Gaza Flotilla a "Provocation" and Refuses to Deny Israeli Role in Sabotage of Boats Democracy Now! 2011

  • Hear what telecommunications tycoon Abdirizak Ido told Mr. Cockburn: We have been through some hard times, but the worst was when we had a government.

    Somalia Ruined: Intervention Fails Again « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

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