Ga
noun
a Kwa language of Ghana, spoken in Accra and vicinity.
Ga
1 American
[gah]
/ gɑ /
noun
Ga
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
GA
3
American
Ga.
4
American
abbreviation
G.A.
5
American
abbreviation
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General Agent.
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General Assembly.
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Insurance. Also g.a., G/A general average.
GA
1
British
abbreviation
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General Assembly (of the United Nations)
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general average
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Georgia
Ga
2
British
/ ɡɑː /
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in S Ghana
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
Ga
3
British
symbol
Ga.
4
British
abbreviation
ga
5
British
abbreviation
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The company expects eventually to increase annual production capacity at its plant in Normal, Ill., to 215,000 vehicles, adding potentially another 300,000 in capacity through its plant in Stanton Springs, Ga.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Our keynote speaker, Truett Cathy, shared his story about growing up poor in Eatonton, Ga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
It comes from “The Underdog,” off the band’s 2007 album, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”: You got no fear of the underdog — that’s why you will not survive.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
Officials have since detected the radioactive isotope at four ports across the nation: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami; and Savannah, Ga.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
It is a pentatonic raga, which means that only 5 pitches are used, Sa, Re, Ga, Pa and Dha.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
It’s a GA venue that holds a little over 1,000.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
“In Western cultures and especially in the U.S., men are just socialized this way,” says Dr. Drew Adelman, a clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Weekend 2 starts at $815 for general admission passes and GA with shuttle on the official Coachella resale site while VIP starts at $1,130.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
On the official Coachella resale site, Weekend 1 general admission three-day passes and GA with a shuttle pass are hovering around $1,000; VIP are starting at $1,630 as of April 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
And, what's more, you can jolly well join GA, GD and GB, and see what that looks like.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 by Sir Owen Seaman
Actor Josh Brolin has sold his sprawling Sandy Springs, Ga., estate for $4 million—a final sale price falling just under $1 million less than the original asking price of $4.999 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Her title on the platform: “Contract Recruiter” at “Confidential Jobs,” based in Smyrna, Ga. He found her clone, “Linda Anthony,” a “Contract Specialist” also at “Confidential Jobs”—this time in California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
OpenAI recently announced $80 million in investment in community projects in Effingham County, Ga., where it seeks to build a massive, 3.2 gigawatt data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A road trip to Savannah, Ga., in 2008 immediately came to mind for Freeman, who is white.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Flowers half the size of the last, white, speckled with green or purplish dots; umbel many-flowered; berry globular, black; ovules 2 in each cell.—Rich woods, in the Alleghanies from N. Y. to Ga. 18.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The plan will save the cost of gas needed to fire up the ovens every morning, Roeders calculates, even if it means paying staff at family-owned G.A.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
Presidents, premiers, monarchs and other dignitaries won’t have to show vaccination cards or other proof of inoculation — they’ll simply attest to it by swiping their ID badges at the assembly hall, G.A.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Salvatore Martirano's "L's G.A. for Gas-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb, and Two-Channel Tape," to give the full title of the piece that ended the program, is a blast from the 1968 past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
“That’s an area that we want to get away from because there are questions about equity,” said G.A.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 3, 2016
An EastKarhidish story, as told in Gorinhering Hearth by Tobord Chorhawa, and recorded by G.A.,
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
For now, Nun cho ga is in a freezer in the Yukon, several hours from the mine where it was found, awaiting further analysis.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
Like the chicken in the pad ga prao, Martinet and Devaul make the sausages in house by grinding their own pork.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
The Japanese term shikata ga nai translates to "it can't be undone".
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2022
Inspired by WoonHeng's mom's ga li chap choi, this brothy bowl is a perfect way to use up whatever vegetables are around.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
Shikata ga nai was good, and it was bad.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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