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  • It was not completely invisible to radar, but was very hard to detect because of its unique r adar-absorbent coating.

    Stealth-Espionage Claims Disputed in China Jeremy Page 2011

  • I don't know who Goofy thinks he is fooling -- but if he/she/it isn't Al Qaeda, my terrorist-adar is really broken.

    Dean Obeidallah: (Not) Flying While Muslim 2009

  • Yr amser gorau i gynnal yr arolwg yw yn y bore, oherwydd bydd yr adar yn bwydo wedi noson aeafol hir ac oer.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Yn 2007, ymunodd dros 21,000 o bobl Cymru gyda 400,000 o bobl ledled y DU i gyfrif adar eu gerddi fel rhan o benwythnos flynyddol Gwylio Adar yr Ardd yr RSPB.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Some substantives are what the grammarians call aggregate plurals, 28 “which are not used in the plural without the addition of diminutive terminations, for example adar, birds, aderyn, a bird; gwenyn, bees, gwenynen, a single bee.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • She sought the framed photograph of the dark-eyed child clutching the cat but couldn't bring it into focus, so she switched her gaze to the window and adar ho ugh overhanging the stream.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • When the feast occurred in an intercalary year it was celebrated twice: on 15 Adar (Little Purim) and on 15 Ve-adar (Great Purim).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Several write peremptorily of the repeal of the Tobo Law and the other tenaccously adar = ling here.

    Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah and Richard Perry, 1717 October 3 1717

  • Roedd yna nifer o gamau angenrheidiol i'r twyll gweithio, camau gan y tad, y fam, y cyw a'r adar maeth.

    Blogiadur.com 2009

  • Roedd y dref yn dawel iawn y bore 'ma wrth gerdded i'r eglwys - dim ond yr adar a pheiriant glanhau y cyngor.

    Blogiadur.com 2009

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