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1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of inter alia (“among other things”)
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   • Since coming to England she has worked as a free-lance journalist (for the TLS, Cumberland Poetry Review, Irish Slavonic Review, Wiadomości and the Paris Kultura inter al.), and as a radio broadcaster and translator. 1995, Muza Donowa: A Celebration of Donald Pirie’s Contribution to Polish Studies, Astra Press, →ISBN, page 142:
   • It is almost impossible to farm these soils because the high water table would cause the roots to rot; but agricultural use is primarily excluded because even the low-salt soils still contain 3-6% salt (sodium chloride, as well as calcium carbonate inter al.), and thus they cannot even be used to cultivate date palms, which are highly resistant to salt water. 2001, A. K. Barua, editor, Water Technology Management, volume II, Dominant Publishers and Distributors, →ISBN, page 162:
   • For an exhaustive treatment of general graph measures, please refer to [167, inter al.], and for a survey on measures used for complex networks, see [70]. 2012, Chris Biemann, Structure Discovery in Natural Language, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of inter alios (“among other people”)
   alt of inter alios
   • The brain might have grown bigger due to a tendency towards ever younger features called neotony (cf. Gould 1977; Gould 1980; Lewin 1989; inter al.). 2001, Gábor Győri, editor, Language Evolution: Biological, Linguistic, and Philosophical Perspectives, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 157:
   • Elsewhere he lists curses (Ballade 802, IV:315), insults (Ballade 1068, V:362; Ballade 804, IV:318; Ballade 849, V:22, inter al.), and the different ways in which people laugh and eat and drink (Ballade 843, V:14 and 844, V:15). 1998, Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, editor, Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World, AMS Press, →ISBN, page 171:
   • On the back cover of the book, it is stated that the books in the series are designed for school students inter al., and in that case I wish a little more help were given on unfamiliar authors or works, such as Pollux, pseudo-Demosthenes, ‘the late lexicographer Harpocration’ or the pseudo-Aristotelian Oikonomika. 1994, JACT Review, Joint Association of Classical Teachers, page 27:
   • They differ from the species of the H. mirus group, H. sarawakensis group, and H. martini group, in the structures of the sternal carinae, inter al.; and from the species of the H. bouvieri group, H. balnearius group, and H. philippinus group, in the structures of the aedeagus, inter al. 2002, Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, page 75:

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