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Liao

American  
[lyou] / lyaʊ /
Wade-Giles, Pinyin.
  1. a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 907–1125.

  2. a river in NE China, flowing through S Manchuria into the Gulf of Liaotung. 700 miles (1,125 km) long.


Liao British  
/ ljaʊ /

noun

  1. a river in NE China, rising in SE Inner Mongolia and flowing northeast then southwest to the Gulf of Liaodong. Length: about 1100 km (700 miles)

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Much of Liao’s group chat fodder has involved the output of Newsom’s digital team, which has elevated trolling to an art form on its official @GovPressOffice account on the social media site X.

From Los Angeles Times

On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in Lin’s hometown of New Taipei City to watch the live broadcast of Lin's final, along with her mother Liao Shiu-chen.

From BBC

"We found the SWI/SNF variants each serve a unique, important purpose in reorganizing chromatin across the genome and enabling macrophage inflammatory responses," says first author Jingwen Liao, a graduate student in Hargreaves' lab.

From Science Daily

To that end, editor Ruth Bayang and web editor and ad representative Kelly Liao will stay on.

From Seattle Times

Over thousands of trials, the crows usually made the correct number of kraaks the cue required, an indication “they understood the task structure,” Liao says.

From Science Magazine