PBA
Americanabbreviation
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Police Benevolent Association.
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Professional Bowlers Association.
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Also called emotional incontinence. pseudobulbar affect.
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Public Buildings Administration.
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HBO’s five-part docuseries, executive produced by Ben Stiller, follows five bowlers on the PBA tour as they grind away in a sport with an uncertain future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
As directors Hernandez and Lazarte seem well aware, there’s a reason the PBA doesn’t operate the largest spectator sport in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
In the near-decade since Wimberley launched the North Carolina Sandhills Prescribed Burn Association, or PBA, he has worked with some 700 landowners.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
The PBA is not the recognised sanctioning body in the UK, and KSI does not hold a professional licence in the country, so the Fury bout does not count towards professional records.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023
The line PBA is sometimes called the radical axis.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
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