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  • Having said that - if you are writing in first person with a mle narrator, getting just a “two-female” conversation is going to be tricky (unless eavesdropping is occurring).

    The value of the Bechdel Test at SF Novelists 2009

  • Whitley craned his neck to see over the mle and I struggled to follow his example, scouring the crowd for any sign of the assassin.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • Stevens was directing not only his own colored troopers, but a number of Rough Riders; for in a mle good soldiers are always prompt to recognize a good officer, and are eager to follow him.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • I felt that if my men could be trained to hit their adversaries with their horses, it was a matter of small amount whether, at the moment when the onset occurred, sabres, lances, or revolvers were used; while in the subsequent mle I believed the revolver would outclass cold steel as a weapon.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • Again, there was contradiction: her feeling was also strong that would justice mle, she was due only punishment and rejection.

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

  • Why, this is a single knight fighting against the whole mle of the tournament --- ha! ha! ha! ''

    The Talisman 1894

  • ` ` Gods and fiends! '' exclaimed the wounded knight; ` ` O, for one moment's strength, to drag myself to the _mle_, and perish as becomes my name! ''

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • To inquire into the motives which induce to it would lead mle too far from nmy immediate subject; and some of them will, I think, appear before this essay is concluded.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Also on Saturday is the eight-mle cascade.org, starting at the Wallingford Playfield, with a coffee stop included.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06: 49 PM EST the nassie rumor is that eddie and bella get preg (with nessie) and the baby starts to eat bella or something mle Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06: 28 PM EST

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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  • MLE – Multicultural London English (From the mouths of teens)

    July 22, 2008

  • According to that article nang is an Australianism. As an Australian teenager I can honestly say I have never heard that word in my life, except in the context of ning nang nong.

    July 22, 2008

  • One Australian teenager speaks it in London. /end sarcasm

    July 23, 2008

  • *wonders what it's like to be an Australian teenager*

    July 23, 2008

  • cf estuarine English

    July 23, 2008

  • maximum likelihood estimator.

    Under standard regularity conditions* on the density function, the MLE is consistent and asymptotically efficient, with an estimated variance-covariance matrix that approaches the Cramer-Rao lower bound, with root(n) convergence.

    * Proof rests on approximating the likelihood surface by a quadratic Taylor series expansion around the maximum; regularity conditions are the type of smoothness requirements that make such an expansion valid.

    July 23, 2008

  • Nang is a relative pronoun in Cocos Malay, a language of the Australian External Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. That's the best I can come up with :-(

    July 23, 2008

  • Code for Male International Airport, Male, Maldives.

    December 31, 2009

  • How can you tell it's male?

    December 31, 2009

  • After all, it could be Emily.

    December 31, 2009