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  • noun Plural form of hebdomad.

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  • Seventy weeks -- namely, of years; literally, "Seventy sevens"; seventy heptads or hebdomads; four hundred ninety years; expressed in a form of "concealed definiteness" [Hengstenberg], a usual way with the prophets.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • After a few hebdomads of little to no results, they give up and go back to their 9 to 5 jobs.

    Shaister Miester Do Da 2009

  • After abruptly abandoning its coup d'etat command for Yokel Inc. 2 hebdomads ago, Microsoft Corp. said Lord'S Day that it have made a new, downsized offering to collaborate with the Sunnyvale Web portal while leaving the door unfastened to a amalgamation down the road.

    Money on the internet 2008

  • For some ground people think, "I'm only a few hebdomads late.

    All about credit cards 2009

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