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Justine Mcdaniel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022 This round of additions doesn’t include any major game-changers, players said, although a few three-letter words, including bae (a slang term of endearment) and aro (an abbreviation for aromantic), add new possibilities to the game board. 2021 Try to be direct about that instead of pushing bae away. 2022 Being unable to call bae before 7:00 pm because those daytime minutes were not giving. 2022 Order one pre-made online or take bae for a DIY date night. 2023 For those ready to manifest their future bae, the bride-to-be wrote her manifestations on a piece of paper, and put them in a jar on New years Eve in 2020 (two and a half months before meeting her honey). 2021 Her bae, Cody Simpson, joined her at the tattoo parlor and got a trident symbol on his forearm. 2023 Check out who was doing what with bae Monday through Friday. So lets examine the raw facts: according to Urban Dictionary and also my middle-school-aged cousins, 'bae' is an acronym, standing for 'before anyone else.' Which makes some sense in the context.

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