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fiatfi‧at /ˈfiːæt, ˈfaɪæt/ noun [countable] formal fiatOrigin: 1300-1400 Latin ‘let it be done’, from fieri ‘to become, be done’ - A bell buoy tolled from across the fiat stretch of gray water beyond.
- A fine dusting of sulfide covers the nearby fiat surfaces of sheeted lavas.
- Lesley had issued her fiat with such confidence that she had taken his compliance for granted.
- Non mea voluntas sed Tua fiat, he thought.
- The infantilism and cretinism of the press, for example, can't be cured by a fiat.
- They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs.
- This water was oily and fiat.
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