het adjective

Examples of het in a Sentence

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With his team, in het Panhuis is developing hydrogels made from edible materials, in the hope that they can be used in 3-D printers to make all sorts of devices. IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2014 The Hebrew word for the festival of lights, Hanukkah/Chanukah, consists of five Hebrew characters opening with the consonant het (chet), the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022 And how often in a cis-het relationship is the person in charge of the money … the man? Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2021

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1972, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of het was circa 1972

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“Het.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/het. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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