AZ
abbreviation
Arizona (approved especially for use with zip code).
AZ
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abbreviation
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azimuth.
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azure.
AZ
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British
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Arizona
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Azerbaijan (international car registration)
az.
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az
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Example Sentences
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Gallardo has a strong replacement available in young AZ Alkmaar player Mateo Chávez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
“To everyone that supported me and showed kindness to my family and I during my time in AZ, from the bottom of my heart, thank you,” Murray wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
"I'm really, really emotional. They're tears of joy. Ah, what a night, what a night," the AZ Alkmaar striker, who led the line in Evan Ferguson's absence, told RTE.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
The AZ Alkmaar forward then sparked wild Irish celebrations as he prodded home Liam Scales's knockdown deep into injury time to send Heimir Hallgrimsson's side into March's play-offs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
I say axis or major diameter, because the same ellipse SVT may be considered as the section of a spheroid of which the axis is AZ perpendicular to AV.
From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
Sir R. de Boterels—Chequée or and gu., on a chevron az. three horseshoes arg.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
The Arms of the College are—Arg., a cross gu., between four doves their dexter wings expanded and inverted az.:
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
Used to blazon the quills of feathers: thus, a blue feather having its quill golden is blazoned—A feather az., quilled or.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
The 51 Shield of Lord Clifford is,—Chequée or and az., a fesse gu.,
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
Barry of six arg. and az. a bend gules.
A climactic finale was only denied when Rindt was forced to pit with a loose endplate that was damaging az tyre.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2019
Michael B. Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, invoked the Hebrew phrase “Im kvar az kvar,” roughly akin to “in for a dime, in for a dollar.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2014
In the little town of Kafr az Zayyat," Wynn writes, "the crowd dragged me up to the front row to stand beside the mayor as the presidential train roared past.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales."
From Time Magazine Archive
Truth iz az artless az a child, and as purswasive.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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