GS
General Schedule (referring to the Civil Service job classification system).
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General Schedule (referring to the Civil Service job classification system).
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general staff.
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German silver.
G.S.
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g.s.
abbreviation
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general secretary.
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general staff.
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British
abbreviation
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General Secretary
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General Staff
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Example Sentences
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The idea is to ensure that the seat – and passenger – would survive a brief exposure to 16 g’s.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024
For people, an impact of about 135 g’s produces a concussion.
From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2022
It seems like they were planning for some kind of outcry here so that they could quickly replace these g’s, because none of the other letters have this.
From Slate • Aug. 13, 2021
The facility, known as nastar, features a massive centrifuge that spins at about sixty miles an hour, creating gravitational loads that can exceed nine g’s.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
At 1000 g’s, the beam is still straight, but trees have become squashed and flattened; at 100,000 g’s, rocks are crushed by their own weight.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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