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ex

Your ex is a husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend that you have ended your relationship with. My daughter's staying with my ex this weekend. The letter x.

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example exchange executive exercise express extra

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If you ex something, you cross it out or delete it.

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The Ex is the Canadian National Exhibition.

ex

a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife all his exes live in Texas (= ex-husband) a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband (= X) the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet (= antique, demode, outmoded) out of fashion a suit of rather antique appearance demode (or outmoded) attire outmoded ideas

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Simple sentences

Mary is Tom's ex-wife.
Tom is married to John's ex-wife.
Tom married his ex-wife's older sister's daughter.
Tom tore to pieces a letter from his ex-wife.
By chance I met my ex-girlfriend in Portugal.
These prices are ex-works.
My ex-boyfriend was brought up in Portugal.
My ex-husband no longer lives in this city.
I ran across an ex-boyfriend of mine in town the other day.
Yesterday, I was on my way home when I unexpectedly met my ex-girlfriend.
His ex-wife obtained a court order that forbid him from coming closer than 200 yards.
Is my aunt's ex-husband my ex-uncle?
When I got out of prison, my ex-wife and I got remarried.
Tom has three ex-wives.
Tom is Mary's ex-boyfriend.
Tom wondered how his ex-wife and her new husband were getting along.
But your ex is a psychopath!
Tom is Mary's ex-husband.
Tom introduced himself as Mary's ex-husband.
Tom is now married to John's ex-wife.
It's your ex-wife.

Movie subtitles

I even miss my stupid ex-boyfriend.
I'm not going back to a life or a job that I like or family or friends or even an ex-boyfriend, and I get that you're sad about that.
Previously on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if you're getting your butterfly smashed, I am all for it.
Previously on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Oh-oh! Whatever happened with you and your ex?
I'm going to be like any other teenage ex-boyfriend's sister's last-minute bridesmaid.
Her ex-girlfriend called twice.
After his release he will be ex-patriatedd.
Hereby, I, ex-convist Lorenz Lubota, write down at my beloved wife Marie's urging, the story of my crimes and my atonement.
That's one place that can use an engineer who's an ex-con.
Hello, my would be ex-son-in-law.
Please ex cuse.
My mother and father and Blackie's mother, they. (EX CLAIMS) You poor boys.
Perhaps they'd rather believe the one that's going around, the one I'll tell, that you wouldn't hold Gallagher because you wouldn't prosecute your wife's ex.
This is about your ex?
They will tell you that Private so-and-so is a Russian Prince or an ex-General who joined the legion to forget his past.
And that, my friend, is what is known as society belle telling ex star newspaper reporter to go to.
Wynant's ex-wife produces murder evidence!
You came close to being the ex-Mr. Nuttall.
Mr Cobb is an ex-newspaperman.
Besides, Nick wouldn't mind Mrs. Donati meeting an ex-farmer like the kid here.
No ex-con is gonna jazz up a schedule for me.
Ex-con.
Now, who but an ex-safecracker could handle one of those newfangled kitchen gadgets?
Ex-convicts, my dear, who've been recommended here through probation officers.
You? Do you know what kind of girls an ex-con usually meets?
He's an ex-convict.
Previously on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Whatever happened with you and your ex?
You still have a soft spot for your ex?
Hello, my would-be ex-son-in-law.
Well, these are my ex-husband's.
I don't think much of your ex's taste though.
How would you like to wake up in the morning and hear the birds singing. and then find the face of an ex-husband looking down upon you?
The head waiter is my ex-brother-in-law.
Your ex-wife is here. Do you want to see her?
Oh, you wanna get even with your ex-bride, huh?

News and current affairs

What is to be done when ex-KGB warriors turn their swords and bugs against one another?
The same is true for Eastern Europe, the ex-Soviet states, and Latin America.
As is usual with this ex-KGB man, Putin is being cunning about Ukraine, but he is deluding himself if he thinks that siding with Yanukovych will bring back effective Russian overlordship of Ukraine.
The bones of contention that wrecked previous attempts to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace have realistic solutions, as was shown by the back-channel peace talks recently held between an Israeli ex-official and a Syrian with close connections to the regime.
In one recent paper, a comparison of ex-users who used for 9 years and abstained from 3 months to 6 years, were compared with long-term users of 10 years, and short-term users of 3 years.
Bo's ex-police chief, who is said to have done the dirty work, embarrassed the Party by fleeing to the US consulate in Chengdu in February, after he fell out with his boss.
Ideally - from their point of view - they will bulk up without attracting regulatory scrutiny, i.e., no ex ante limits on their risk-taking activities will be imposed.
And throughout the EU, the positive effects of the enlargement strategy that has brought in 10 ex-communist countries over the past three years looks to be generating a new self-confidence.
At the risk of offending many friends of a democratic persuasion, I have now concluded that the rule of law should come first when constitutionalism is brought to an ex-dictatorship, and democracy second.
Germany primarily reacted to low-wage competition from ex-communist countries.
That is why France recently received an Algerian ex-detainee.
People kill each other in Somalia, Rwanda, ex-Yugoslavia, and the Middle East without Europe being able to do anything about it.
The area of peace that is Europe is bound to grow further in the future, first to Ex-Yugoslavia, then to Turkey, then one day to the Middle East and the Islamic world.
The country is gradually turning into an industrial bazaar that is relocating its workbench to low-wage ex-communist countries.
For example, David Beckham and his ex-pop-star wife Victoria, live out their own dream of royalty, aping some of its gaudiest aspects.
But it makes an enormous practical difference that an incumbent ruler can do a lot more future damage to his people than an ex-ruler, and therefore should be given no incentive to retaliate.
The first step in this process was the inclusion of Belarus in the EU's Eastern Partnership, a new framework for relations with six ex-Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
One is that the AWF error won't occur, because there are no reliable ex ante signs of rising potential instability.
Freedom in money creation or in interest-rate policy could mean economic disaster - as, indeed, it did in many ex-colonies following independence.
And that is why several other EU countries are now considering receiving ex-detainees cleared for release, but who, for compelling reasons, cannot return to their countries of origin.
Second, even if the West condemns Georgia's irresponsibility and incorporates into its policy Russia's sensitivities on the complex historical feelings related to its ex-imperial territories, the Kremlin's shameless brutality is unacceptable.
But the last decade of the twentieth century was also indelibly stained by ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda, and during the current decade the tide has seemed to turn against the rights cause.