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  1. choad

  2. choda

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ad-hoc in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ad-hoc in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ad-hoc in a Sentence

  1. Maria Neira:

    It is more of a short-term ad hoc rather than a long-term exposure.

  2. Philip Greenspun:

    Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

  3. Technology Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz:

    It is highly probable that by 2020 and beyond, energy prices will not go down and other solutions than ad hoc cuts need to be sought because the spectrum of available instruments is limited, this is why we prepared a program for the development of prosumer energy.

  4. Elizabeth Randol:

    They're [state legislature] sort of guilty of serial over-criminalization. They continue to pass ad hoc bills that could criminalize behavior that could already be charged under the current statute, yes it's responding to a tragedy … a tragedy does not mean that there are no tools available to hold people accountable in those cases.

  5. Muriel Bowser:

    I've asked for the deployment of National Guard as long as we need National Guard to deal with the crisis that we expect to escalate, the number of people crossing the border seeking asylum we expect to only go up. And we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad-hoc, city by city, state by state response.


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