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  bc

  abbreviation

  basso continuo.
• BC
  BC

  abbreviation

  buoyancy compensator.
• B/C
  B/C

  bills for collection.
• b.c.
  b.c.

  abbreviation

  before Christ (used in indicating dates).
• B.C.
  B.C.

  abbreviation

  Bachelor of Chemistry.

bc

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Music. basso continuo.

2. blind copy: used as a notation on the copy of a letter or other document sent to a third person without the addressee's knowledge. Also

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BC ² American  

abbreviation

1. Scuba Diving. buoyancy compensator.

2. British Columbia, Canada (approved for postal use).

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B/C ³ American  

1. bills for collection.

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b.c. ⁴ American  

Or B.C.

abbreviation

1. before Christ (used in indicating dates).

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B.C. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Chemistry.

2. Bachelor of Commerce.

3. bass clarinet.

4. battery commander.

5. British Columbia.

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BC British  

abbreviation

1. Also: B.C.. (indicating years numbered back from the supposed year of the birth of Christ) before Christ Compare AD

   in 54 bc Caesar came

2. British Columbia

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Usage

The abbreviation b.c. “before Christ” is always placed after a date or century: Cleopatra lived from 69 to 30 b.c. The war took place in the first century b.c. See also a.d. ¹

Example Sentences

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Ohh my fault, it was holding bc he threw the flag.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

“What other artist comes out and greets fans bc the show was cancelled?? We don’t deserve you Edward,” added another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

“There needs to be an age limit on congressional positions bc this was so embarrassing,” one user wrote in the caption of a video posted on Friday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Allen said: When LT blocked him, not Sweat, he knew to stay outside bc Sweat would go inside.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

Psalms sung by the priests of King David, who united the kingdoms of Israel and Judaea in 1003 bc, are riven through with references to instruments and to singing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The final twist came this week after a British investment firm named BC Partners aborted its plan to fund the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Opening night in Los Angeles will begin at 7 p.m. with a matchup between the league’s first two MVPs, as Napheesa Collier and Lunar Owls BC go up against Chelsea Gray and Rose BC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

But behind the scenes, LIV and its proposed investor, the British firm BC Partners, were having problems bringing golfers on board—and time was running out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The world-famous Wiltshire monument was constructed in multiple phases over thousands of years, between 3000 and 1600 BC.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Little is known about his youth, but it seems that Archimedes was born around 287 BC in Samos, Pythagoras’s birthplace.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

So, diagram the A/B premise and the B/C premise onto the three circles.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024

“Out of an abundance of caution, TSA evacuated the B/C and D/E security checkpoints to ensure the safety of its employees and travelers,” a TSA spokesperson said in an email.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

He’s a smart kid and normally a strong B/C student.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2021

As the BBC revealed on Wednesday, the inspectorate's findings on HMP Liverpool - a local category B/C prison, which also takes people on remand - are damning across the board.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2017

Taagepera, R. Size and duration of empires growth-decline curves, 3000 to 600 b.c.

From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017

French archaeologists, for example, have found exquisite ceramic figurines, bowls and funerary objects at sites that date from at least 8000 b.c.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Fertile Crescent, village accountants began keeping records with clay tokens around 8000 b.c.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Scaliger chose Day 0 as January 1, 4713, b.c.;

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Perhaps the most influential person ever associated with Samos was Pythagoras,* a contemporary of Polycrates in the sixth century b.c.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Combined with other dating evidence, the results indicate that the seeds were deposited in the burial site during the early eighth century B.C.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Out of nowhere comes this guy from B.C. who’s just raising money for cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The patchwork of ancient material is complicated by contradictions, gaps and overlaps, leaving what the Sicilian historian Diodorus could describe in the first century B.C. as a “variegated and inconsistent account of Medea.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Alexander would die far from home in the palace at Babylon—Mr. Richardson infers typhoid—in 323 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

To understand the answer to this paradox, we have to remember that, until 400 B.C., the frontier of Tsushima Strait separated not rich farmers from poor hunter-gatherers but poor farmers from rich hunter-gatherers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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