bal
1 Americannoun
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balance.
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balancing.
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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
And then Martinez, who possessed perhaps the most devastating changeups in baseball history, offset is fingers to get the middle and ring fingers on top of the bal.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2021
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
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Ighovodja, who is playing with the Abidjan team for the BAL season, is a lefty who started playing basketball four years ago, initially as a shooting guard.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
The 17-year-old Cameroonian also played in BAL last year and does not lack confidence.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
The NBA thinks that interest in the BAL can help change that.
From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 8, 2022
Egypt’s Zamalek team won the first BAL championship on May 30, 2021.
From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 8, 2022
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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