Gao
noun
a city in E Mali.
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Gao
1 American
[gah-oh, gou]
/ ˈgɑ oʊ, gaʊ /
noun
GAO
2
American
Gao
British
/ ɡaʊ, ˈɡɑːəʊ /
noun
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Prof Gao believes "the answer is public education combined with law enforcement", saying that there was a "need to publicise real cases where people have been punished."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Gao died on July 7, at 55, of T-cell lymphoma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"The mechanism of superconductivity in the twisted bilayer graphene system we used is still not well understood," said Gao.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
FLA spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane told AFP on Wednesday that the rebels intend to take control of Gao, Timbuktu and Menaka following their success in Kidal.
From Barron's ● Apr. 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 Reynolds, Mack
The GAO audit, which was carried out at the request of Democratic Senators Gary Peters and Richard Blumenthal, covered savings data reported from 20 January 2025 through 7 July 2026.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Asked for comment, a White House official said the administration told the GAO that all employees had to complete ethics training and follow financial disclosure requirements.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Because Medicare’s hospice daily payment rates are the same regardless of the number of visits delivered, Medicare effectively paid low-visit hospices twice as much per visit as high-visit hospices, on average,” according to the GAO.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
If Medicare had paid by visit rather than under the current model, it would have saved $7.6 billion on hospice care in 2024, the GAO said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
GAO, Gao-Gao, or Garo, a town of French West Africa, in the Upper Senegal and Niger colony, on the left bank of the Niger, 400 m. by river below Timbuktu.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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