bal
noun
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[bal]
/ bæl /
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BAL
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bal.
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balance.
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balancing.
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BAL
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Drawing from the region’s deep vein of Celtic mythology, Jenkin summons the ghosts of lost fishermen and long-gone female mine workers, known as bal maidens, stoking an atmosphere thick with ancient anguish.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Mad honey, or deli bal in Turkish, is a type of rhododendron honey.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022
Gattis has taken an unusual journey as a coach on the offensive side of the bal..
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
Stories that catalogue the delights and the dangers of deli bal, or Turkish “mad honey”, crop up throughout history.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2020
The dancing-club was a bal musette in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The APR is one of Rwanda's top basketball teams and represented the country in the BAL in 2024 and 2025, when it came third.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The BAL is a pan-African basketball league established and co-organised by the NBA and the basketball's world governing body Fiba.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Academy alum Babacar Sane played in the BAL and other events last year and jumped to the G League Ignite, where the 6-foot-6 Senegalese player is in the first season of a two-year contract.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Although Neto is not playing in BAL, the Angolan is “one of the best upcoming point guards that we have,” Traore said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
BAL, representative or personification of the sun, was one of the Great Gods of Syria, Assyria, and Chaldea, and his name is found upon the monuments of Nimroud, and frequently occurs in the Hebrew writings.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
On July 21 is an entry “Milo Lucas bal. of Building Contract $1605.25.”
From The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch by Edwin A. Battison
In 1791 John Potts was paid four pounds and four shillings "in part for 20 Lottery tickets in the Alexa. street Lottery at 6/ each, 14 Dollrs. the Bal. was discharged by 2.3 Lotr prizes."
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford
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