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LES

American  

abbreviation

  1. lower esophageal sphincter.


Example Sentences

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This year, it’s LES MOONVES, one of the most powerful men in television.

From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2018

LES CAYES, Haiti — A hospital now a shambles, its floors swamped with garbage and water, absent electricity.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2016

The Orion spacecraft, NASA’s next generation of manned craft in development, also features an LES mounted on top of the craft, called a Launch Abort System.

From Time • Nov. 18, 2014

Most other proposed transactions in the global exchanges industry, including bids by the LES, Singapore Exchange Ltd and Nasdaq OMX Group, have since failed.

From Reuters • Jan. 11, 2012

One large octavo vol., paper covers, $1.00, or cloth bound, $1.50 LES MISERABLES.—A superior edition of the same Novel, in five handsome octavo vols.—"Fantine,"

From Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac by Armstrong, William H.