MLA

¹

1. Modern Language Association.

M.L.A.

²

abbreviation

1. Master of Landscape Architecture.

2. Modern Language Association.

MLA

abbreviation

1. Member of the Legislative Assembly (of Northern Ireland)

2. Modern Language Association (of America)

Example Sentences

M.L.A. means member of the legislative assembly; Mr. Sengar was in his fourth term.

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In one police complaint, an uncle of the young woman said that the family was explicitly warned: “Compromise with M.L.A. Kuldeep Singh Sengar, otherwise you all will be killed in one way or the other.”

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The M.L.A.’s departing president, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, has remained neutral during his term, but he said after the vote that he was “strongly opposed to all cultural boycotts.”

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“We now have a resolution that the M.L.A. shall not endorse the boycott,” said Mr. Berman, who was among 12 past presidents of the group who signed a letter opposing the boycott.

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Waldrop’s poems are not for the nerdy-flirty name-tagged poststructuralists at the M.L.A. bar.

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