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Gao

1 American  
[gah-oh, gou] / ˈgɑ oʊ, gaʊ /

noun

  1. a city in E Mali.


GAO 2 American  
Gao British  
/ ɡaʊ, ˈɡɑːəʊ /

noun

  1. a town in E Mali, on the River Niger: a small river port. Pop: 57 978 (2005 est)

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Kaidi Gao, a senior venture-capital research analyst at market tracker PitchBook, said that VCs’ approach to AI investing has changed.

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Many also credit Mao with laying the foundation for China to become a modern, technologically advanced nation, said Mobo Gao, professor of Chinese studies at Adelaide University.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Tao Gao, MD, research assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, was the study's lead author.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Emma Gao started growing Cabernet Sauvignon in the sandstorm-swept foothills of China’s Ningxia region in 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Six months ago, she had given a performance similar to that she had just finished in Gao, several hundred miles down river.

From Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds

Much of this money, GAO said, was “funded by tuition and fees paid by students,” which “indirectly include federal funds students receive in federal student aid to pay their tuition and fees.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Its published conflict-of-interest policy covers member commissioners but not, so far as the GAO could determine, its chief executive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The GAO found that in 2019, more than 6,000 businesses had over 20 different ownership tiers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

And developing, producing and maintaining the F-35 is anticipated to require $2 trillion, making it the DOD’s most expensive weapon system in history, according to the GAO.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

The most famous is, probably, the General Accounting Office, known by its acronym: the GAO.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

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