MLA
Modern Language Association.
MLA
1 American
M.L.A.
2
American
abbreviation
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Master of Landscape Architecture.
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Modern Language Association.
MLA
British
abbreviation
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Member of the Legislative Assembly (of Northern Ireland)
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Modern Language Association (of America)
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DUP MLA Carla Lockhart said residents have "nothing to fear" and asked them not to get "caught up in hysteria".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Under the proposals, while the basic MLA salary will increase in line with earnings growth, payments for different office holders will remain unchanged throughout the 2027-32 mandate.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Sinn Féin MLA Philip McGuigan, who chairs Stormont's health committee, said the proposed reconfiguration committee "could ensure public confidence in future decisions".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Liang’s team at DeepSeek came up with some of the most important workarounds, including multihead latent attention, or MLA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The day after Christmas she left Pemberton Road, with the excuse to his mother and Sonia that a last-minute interview had fallen into place at the MLA.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
M.L.A. means member of the legislative assembly; Mr. Sengar was in his fourth term.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
In the new M.L.A. edition, all three manuscripts will be published.
From Time Magazine Archive
By forcing the arrests, the hotel management fueled the suspicion of some dissidents that M.L.A. directors were colluding to repress them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many M.L.A. editors insist their plodding, comma-splicing spadework is absolutely necessary because the texts of any American classics have been hopelessly corrupted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. van den Heever, M.L.A., and other colonial notables were spokesmen in similar terms of enthusiasm on other occasions as the invasion advanced.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas
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