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chol-
variant of chole- before a vowel.
choline.
Example Sentences
He investigated the 1974 conviction of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean American immigrant accused of murdering a known gang member in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Lee pursued the case for six months for the Sacramento Union and wrote two front-page stories in which he described Chol Soo Lee as a troubled young man “betrayed by the well-meaning system which has swallowed up the boy in the name of Americanization.”
Around the same time, Chol Soo Lee was being tried for a second murder in prison, which he claimed was out of self-defense.
Lee would go on to write more than 100 articles about Chol Soo Lee’s case, leaving the Sacramento Union to follow the story through his newspaper start-up, the Koreatown Weekly in Los Angeles.
Julie Ha, who co-directed the Emmy-awarding winning documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee,” said Lee saw parallels between himself and Chol Soo Lee.
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When To Use
Chol- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “bile” or "gall." It is often used in medical terms, especially in physiology.Chol- comes from the Greek DZḗ, meaning “bile.” Bile is a yellowish-green liquid secreted by the liver. The Greek DZḗ is also source of the word cholic.Chol- is a variant of chole-, which loses its -e- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our 51Թs That Use chole- article.
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