AK
abbreviation
(loosely) AK-47.
a.k.
2
American
abbreviation
Slang: Vulgar.
AK
British
abbreviation
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Alaska
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Knight of the Order of Australia
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“Housing is the middle class’s wealth engine—and many millennials showed up after the train already left the station,” said Ana Hernández Kent, who runs AK Research & Consulting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Of those, only Austria Vienna managed to win at the weekend with league leaders Red Bull Salzburg drawing at second-bottom Grazer AK.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
AK Antony, a former Kerala chief minister from the Congress party, said that as a school student in the 1960s, he would wait beside paddy fields to listen to Achuthanandan's speeches.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
The Uvalde gunman used an assault rifle; Herrera is known as the AK Guy.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
“And considering everything, you’re actually very lucky. You’re alive, and you still have your knee, which makes a huge difference in your future mobility. BK amputees have it much easier than AK amputees.”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
The writer who made the biggest first impression on me is a.k. payne, author of “Furlough’s Paradise,” which was the best new play I saw in town all year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
This shape-shifting two-character drama by a.k. payne explores the politically loaded subject of identity through the relationship of two queer Black cousins, who grew up together but whose lives have diverged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Playwright a.k. payne, who studied under Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney at Yale, chooses not to capitalize their name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
The Geffen Playhouse’s 2024-25 season lineup includes premieres by Sara Porkalob, a.k. payne and Jake Brasch, plus a 20th anniversary staging of artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘The Brothers Size.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
Other superlative turns can be found in the Series B closer, “blooms,” by a.k. payne.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
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