H.H.

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abbreviation

His Highness; Her Highness.

His Holiness.

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Words nearby H.H.

hGH, H-graft anastomosis, hgt., HGV, hgwy., H.H., hhd, HHFA, H-hinge, H-hour, HHS

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I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.
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Or fast-fashion chains like Zara and H&M churning out runway imitations.
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It seems that Mr. H. is expecting not only me, he's expecting Thom Mount, the head of production at the studio.
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His sensitivity to this problem came out in his first sharp disagreement with his boss, VMI superintendent Francis H. Smith.
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G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.
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The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.
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For hadde (which gives no sense), read bad; confusion of b and h is not uncommon.
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Now Dabbler was a widower; he was not of prepossessing appearance, and his h's troubled him, but Dabbler was a warm man.
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William H. Riley, of Philadelphia, has been for years, one of the leading fashionable gentlemen's boot-makers.
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British Dictionary definitions for H.H.

abbreviation for

His (or Her) Highness

His Holiness (title of the Pope)

symbol for

(on Brit pencils) double hard

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