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  • Whatever the okaylike words then used across the land and which could have conditioned America so fully to embrace the new expression, o.k. is now commonly used by speakers of hundreds of languages.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Over the next hundred years, ok went global thanks to its use by stars in popular films and radio shows; by U.S. Air Force pilots and military troops; by worshipped astronauts on TV; and, of course, in technology, with o.k. being a favorite global label for digitalized options on such everyday items as ATMs, cell phones, portable and stationary credit card machines, and computer operating systems.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • People saying and hearing o.k. know what they mean, and it works even across major cultural and linguistic divides.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • We started our meal with hot Potato-Cheese-Chile Poblano Knishes (o.k.; so it's fusion cuisine!); then the soup; then we had Pecan Pie that our guests had made.

    �me encanta caldo de res! 2009

  • We started our meal with hot Potato-Cheese-Chile Poblano Knishes (o.k.; so it's fusion cuisine!); then the soup; then we had Pecan Pie that our guests had made.

    �me encanta caldo de res! 2009

  • Here are government officials who look like and talk like you (o.k., with a French accent) that are willing to discuss proudly and openly how they need immigrants and seek immigration.

    Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010

  • Here are government officials who look like and talk like you (o.k., with a French accent) that are willing to discuss proudly and openly how they need immigrants and seek immigration.

    Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010

  • DOUBLE DOWNER FROM HUFFPOST HILL'S MA - o.k. here's a try. do whatever you want with it including nothing. it's not sarcastic so change it if you like. that's not natural to me so it wouldn't sound right.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Jean Schmidt Under Investigation Eliot Nelson 2011

  • Here are government officials who look like and talk like you (o.k., with a French accent) that are willing to discuss proudly and openly how they need immigrants and seek immigration.

    Christopher Sabatini: A More Mature Immigration Policy Christopher Sabatini 2010

  • We started our meal with hot Potato-Cheese-Chile Poblano Knishes (o.k.; so it's fusion cuisine!); then the soup; then we had Pecan Pie that our guests had made.

    �me encanta caldo de res! 2009

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