Cb
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Citizens' Band
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Companion of the (Order of the) Bath (an English title)
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County Borough
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(in Canada) Cape Breton Island
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Etymology
Origin of C.B.
From Latin Chīrurgiae Baccalaureus
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A third type of circuit, also fourfold, is represented by the arrows Bc Cn Nc Cb.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
The first, Oc, is contained within the circuit Bo Oc Cb and, since no "nondepositors" intervene, represents money changing hands once between its withdrawal from bank and its redeposit there.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
Cb Enter alphabetically, names of authors, with the title of their works, one author to a line.
From A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana
The F1 birds produced by crossing were in constitution CcBb, and being heterozygous for two factors produced in equal numbers the four sorts of gametes CB, Cb, cB, cb.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
G.235.We must now except the seventh century corrector of Cod. א called by Tischendorf Ca, who actually changes the original reading εκδ. into ενδ., to be himself set right by a later hand Cb.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
Casey O’Malley, a data scientist at CB Insights, says that given the investment required to have a real AI infrastructure, many industries are splitting into “hyperscalers” and most everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Sporting greats of a bygone time such as Denis Compton, CB Fry and Tip Foster are among the 12 men to do it.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Proponents of Measure CB argue that it would level the playing field and bring in revenue for the cash-strapped city.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
New York Giants: Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU — Giants will hold their breath making this pick as they have an illustrious history of drafting busts at corner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Or just called it in on his CB.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Murphy was ejected after yelling toward first base umpire C.B.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023
Elena Maza-Borland highlights the rough-veined rind of a heirloom variety of French pumpkin, and C.B.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
I see the showman in myself that was C.B.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
They groaned just about every ball/strike call from home-plate umpire C.B.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
A skeleton key etched with the initials C.B.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Nnamdi Asomugha, cb, Eagles: Yet more proof there are no sure things in sports, at least through half a season.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2011
The substitution of 00 for cb, so as to write bdeooa, kept the d in its place, and therefore still indicating 40,000.
From Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 by Various
The F1 birds produced by crossing were in constitution CcBb, and being heterozygous for two factors produced in equal numbers the four sorts of gametes CB, Cb, cB, cb.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
The small italics throughout signify the following homologous parts: m, medulla; cb, cerebellum; op, optic lobes; cr, cerebrum and thalamus; ol, olfactory lobes.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes
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