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FAS
1 American
F.A.S.
2
American
Or
f.a.s.
abbreviation
Commerce.
FAS
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of F.A.S.
First recorded in 1875–80
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Hopi Hoekstra, the dean of FAS who spearheaded the restructuring, said adjustments will be needed after changes are implemented this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The TV show Time Team found pieces of the bucket last year, as part of a two-year research project with FAS Heritage and the National Trust exploring the earlier history of the site.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
"But if they don't, then FAS doesn't get diagnosed right away and the child may not get the support that they need until later in life."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Hans Kristensen, director of the FAS Nuclear Information Project, told me the DF-27 can probably hold either nuclear or conventional warheads, and therefore can be seen as both a strategic and a tactical weapon.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
“Haven’t they ever heard of separation anxiety? What is the matter with these people? I have taken care of toddlers with FAS, and they are nothing like Boo.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
F.A.S., and a Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, died on the 6th of January at Shooter's Hill, Kent, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song with Historical and Traditional Notices relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry, now first published by R. H. Cromek, F.A.S.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
Charm on a ring, olim penes W. Hamper, F.A.S.
From Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various
F.A.S.; sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS at Lambeth.
From Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 by Various
I would not have written conjecturally on this subject if I could have avoided it; but though Swinney was a F.A.S.
From Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
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