a city in central Oklahoma.
Douay Bible. Adah.
a first name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”
American Dental Association. null A.D.A.
American Diabetes Association. null A.D.A.
Americans for Democratic Action. null A.D.A.
Americans with Disabilities Act: a federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with physical or mental impairments and guaranteeing access to employment opportunities and access to state and local government programs and services, signed by President George H. W. Bush in 1990.
American Dental Association.
American Diabetes Association.
Americans for Democratic Action.
Named after Augusta Ada (Byron), Countess of Lovelace (1815–37), English mathematician, who assisted Charles Babbage in developing a precursor of the modern computer
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Ada recognised her friend in a photograph posted on X by then US by then Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Pulitzer winner Ada Ferrer’s of-the-moment new memoir, “Keeper of My Kin,” examines the agonizing personal costs of the Cuban exile and the families left fractured in its wake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Lindsey Heaps had her seventh-minute opener disallowed by referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi, who believed Ingrid Engen and Ada Hegerberg were in an offside position in front of Arsenal keeper Daphne van Domselaar.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Despite reportedly running 400,000 simulations a day based on Clinton’s race against Donald Trump, and churning out detailed reports on how to reach voters, Ada and the former secretary of state’s campaign were ultimately unsuccessful.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
Trying to understand why I cried ten minutes after Lucas told me Ada was at Russell’s but never shed a tear when my cousin dropped dead.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
Results from that study were also presented at the ADA meeting and published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Currently, the law subsidizes 83 ADA positions for Orleans Parish.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
A full dataset will be released at ADA Scientific Sessions in early June, which will provide a more in-depth evaluation of the results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
So I went to ADA and I got half a million dollars, which is actually a modest amount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
SIMPSON, ADA, 40 years old, visiting at 537 West Sixty-fifth street, Denver.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
Then she revised that statement: “Well, it shouldn’t take two years. But what worked well was that they closed the street first and then they made those updates,” such as adding more A.D.A. parking spaces.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2022
When the A.D.A. was enacted 32 years ago, only 6 percent of Chicago’s rail stations were compliant.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
“Dole was our linchpin to the Republicans,” said former Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa and one of the lawmakers who introduced the A.D.A.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Without Mr. Dole, several advocates said, it was possible the A.D.A. never would have passed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
He told the jury, in so many words, to pay no attention to either the A.D.A. or to Mr. Tutt, and to listen only to him, because he was the whole thing.
From By Advice of Counsel by Train, Arthur Cheney
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