et al.
- An abbreviation of the Latin phrase 'et alia', meaning 'and others', commonly used to shorten the names of multiple plaintiffs or defendants in a court case
- In the case documentation, Jones et al. was used to avoid listing all the plaintiffs.
- Instead of naming all defendants, they simply wrote 'Smith et al.'.
- To save space, they described the group of researchers as 'Taylor et al.' on the research paper.
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