IMO
abbreviation
in my (honest/humble) opinion.
IMO
American
Also
imo,
or
IMHO
abbreviation
IMO
1
British
abbreviation
-
text messaging in my opinion
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International Maritime Organization
Imo
2
British
/ ˈiːməʊ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of IMO
First recorded in 1980–85; from its use in digital communications
Example Sentences
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With IMO participants from all over the world, they plowed through their McNuggets and crowded around a whiteboard trying to crack a tricky math puzzle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The rest transited via unidentified routes or the traditional IMO corridor.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And in 2026, IMO success is so unremarkable that Anthropic announced its perfect score on page 153 of a technical document.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
AI's progress has been fast: at the 2024 IMO, Google achieved a silver-medal score, solving four of the six problems over two to three days.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to "The Economist", the IMO believes that half of all incidents remain untold.
From Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin
Imo Bell, a planetarium astronomer at The Royal Observatory Greenwich, says the specialist glasses are "very, very different" to regular sunglasses, which will not offer protection.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The most interesting Korean restaurant that debuted this month, though, is Imo Pocha, a late-night bistro that serves kimchi fried rice and fried chicken until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
In Japan, the moon is also called Imo Meigetsu, or the potato harvest moon, and sweet potatoes or taro might be offered alongside moon viewing festivals.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
Zita Ihedoro, secretary general of Sisters of Jesus, the Saviour Generalate, said the four were abducted while travelling from Rivers state to Imo for a thanksgiving mass on Sunday.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022
"Imo and I were wondering, by the way, if you could send us a man with some tar-paper to line our cabins."
From The Iron Furrow by Henry A. Botkin
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