OBE

1. 1
   nouncountableinitialism

   Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. It is a British honor given to a person for good work.

   She was awarded an OBE for her services to nursing.

   He proudly added the letters OBE after his name.

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2. 2
   nouncountableinitialism

   Initialism of out-of-body experience. It means the feeling of floating outside your own body.

   Many patients describe having an OBE during a cardiac arrest.

   After the accident, she said she had an OBE and watched herself from above.

3. 3
   noununcountableinitialism

   Initialism of outcome-based education. It is a way of teaching that focuses on what students can actually do.

   The school switched to an OBE model in the 1990s.

   Teachers trained in OBE focus on what each child can show they have learned.

4. 4
   adjectiveinitialism

   Initialism of overcome by events. It marks a plan or report that no longer matters because things have changed.

   By the time the report arrived, its advice was already OBE.

   The team marked the old proposal OBE after the merger fell through.

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5. 5
   nouncountableinitialism

   Initialism of operating-basis earthquake. It is the size of earthquake a plant must keep working through safely.

   The reactor was designed to keep running through an OBE.

   Engineers calculated the OBE for the proposed plant site.

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   proper nouninitialism

   Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education. It is a government office that supports teaching in two languages.

   The OBE funded several language programs across the state.

   She worked at the OBE for nearly a decade.

7. 7
   proper nouninitialism

   Initialism of Oregon Board of Education. It is the group that sets school rules in Oregon.

   The OBE approved new graduation requirements last spring.

   Parents asked the OBE to change the reading lessons.

8. 8
   proper nouninitialism

   Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education. It is the group that once ran public schools in Ottawa.

   The OBE managed dozens of schools before the merger.

   Her mother taught at a school run by the OBE.

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   proper nounhistoricalUSinitialism

   Initialism of Office of Business Economics. It was an old US agency that tracked the economy and is now called the BEA.

   The OBE published reports on national income in the 1950s.

   Economists at the OBE measured how much the country produced.

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    nouncountableinitialism

    Initialism of one big explanation. It means trying to explain everything with a single idea.

    He tried to wrap the whole mess up in one neat OBE.

    Don't force all the data into a single OBE.

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    nounhumorouscountableinitialism

    Initialism of out-of-buggy experience. It is a joking way to say a kite-buggy rider was thrown out.

    A sudden gust gave him an OBE across the dunes.

    She laughed off her OBE after the kite yanked her loose.

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