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    GW
    gigawatt; gigawatts.
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    gw
    abbreviation
    Guinea-Bissau

GW

American  
Or Gw
  1. gigawatt; gigawatts.


gw British  

abbreviation

  1. Guinea-Bissau

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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However, he tells clients in a note that there are few details regarding Infratil’s contention that 5 GW of its 10 GW data center-related opportunity is immediately actionable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The entire city of San Francisco consumed just over 5 GW of energy in 2024, according to state data.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Utilizing proprietary inference simulators and coding benchmarks, SemiAnalysis arrives at $100 billion per GW of annual recurring revenue.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

As the senior photo editor for the GW Hatchet, Mathylda manages a photo editing team and oversees visual coverage for the independent student paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

We run down Broadway all the way to 170th Street, then take a detour to J. Hood Wright Park to look at the GW Bridge on the first landing.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

For example, gwesht is considered an unlikely word of English, because the sequences gw and sht are found in few words of English.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021

“Will take gw bridge to work,” Mr. Wildstein texted back.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2014

Initial v gives f in Goidelic in the course of the 7th century, whereas in Brythonic it appears as gu, gw, cf.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Ma, may, that, are sometimes followed by verbs in the third state, and sometimes by a variant, g becoming h, and gw becoming wh.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

One or two of our names beginning with gw, as Gwilliams, Gwatkin, and perhaps Gwalter, are probably due to the Welsh, of which this prefix is also a characteristic.

From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson

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