NSA
Americanabbreviation
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National Security Agency.
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National Shipping Authority.
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National Standards Association.
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National Student Association.
Example Sentences
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By 26, he was breaking Russian codes for the NSA during the Cold War.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025
The ministry accused the NSA of exploiting weaknesses in the messaging service of an unspecified foreign mobile phone brand in order to steal login credentials from employees at the time centre.
From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025
My FBI file alone is more than an inch thick, and I was never able to get my hands on files kept on me by military intelligence, the CIA and NSA.
From Salon • May 6, 2025
I don’t want to say for a fact that the NSA doesn’t have a camera trained secretly on the whiteboard of, like, every mathematician in the world, because, who knows?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2025
Unmoved, the NSA decided to take back the documents anyway.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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