as in oh
old-fashioned + literary used to call attention to something or to show wonder or surprise Lo, the king approaches! the adventures we have shared for lo these many years

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Recent Examples of lo Now a court action could resolve the question that’s been hanging over the complex for lo these many years: Can, and should, Seaside be saved? Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 29 July 2024 Flash forward a decade and lo, Abby has found herself on a zeitgeisty FX show called The Bear. Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2024 God narrates the film, starring Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, which was born in the basement show spaces of UCB lo these many years ago. Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023 As the good folk in the land of the sacrament have said for lo these many years: light the freakin’ beam. Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2023 And lo, the gospel of RottenTomatoes.com has Hollywood popping Klonopin and yanking out its hair more than ever as summer movie season gets going. Chris Lee, HWD, 9 June 2017 Then lo and behold a couple months later when the Senate convenes, a number of people who are elected as Democrats enter an agreement that empowers Republicans who voters specifically said should be in the minority. Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 May 2017 The character’s yellow head was given a red bow, scarlet lipstick, and a glamorous beauty spot, and, lo, the Man became a Ms. Ms. Pac-Man’s grand innovation was to randomize the movements of the ghosts, named Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Sue. Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2017
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  • For oh so long, Edward Cabrera has flashed tantalizing talent with the Miami Marlins.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And people have said, oh, this is a constitutional crisis.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2025
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  • And hey, the whole ordeal might actually help Hub reconnect with his family, so there’s a silver lining to all this blood and guts.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But hey, the whole point of this helmet is that everything comes together, in one package.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Mar. 2025
Interjection
  • Anyway, diffusion LLMs seem to handle this with ease (well, the research is still tentative, so don’t bank on this just yet).
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • As their name suggests, supermassive black holes are, well, very massive—most are more than one million times the mass of our sun.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Lo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lo. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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