ro.
1 Americanabbreviation
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recto.
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roan.
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rood.
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Receiving Office.
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Receiving Officer.
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Regimental Order.
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British. Royal Observatory.
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Example Sentences
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I mail it at the Canton RO. the next morning.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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I work on a short essay whose deadline has passed, but it’s hard to get my mind to settle, so I open up R.O.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
At the urging of Angela Flournoy, the author of “The Turner House,” Jones is also starting a speaker’s bureau, which represents R.O.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018
One patient the sociologists encountered had been relatively calm until she started R.O. training, during which she was continually reminded that she lived in a nursing facility.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
Throughout her debut novel, a haunting portrayal of faith, R.O.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
One of the amusing features of the campaign, and in opposition to the measure, was a cartoon drawn by R.O.
From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Frank Moore
RO: No problem, just going to look now.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
RO: Do you want to see it at full speed?
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
RO: I think I started April 16th and it was around the 17th, in 2016.
From The Verge ● Oct. 19, 2021
With a hand-operated pump, small RO units can be used in third-world countries, disaster areas, and in lifeboats.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
RO means reddish orange, being an orange having more red than yellow in its composition.
From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford
"People are living in caravans on their parents land, there are no houses ro rent, this is just another way to regulate the problem."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
But for the second year in a ro w, hot and dry weather has lowered the river, allowing a denser, heavier layer of salt water from the Gulf to push inland.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
The edginess of the corporate earnings season continued ro rankle in Europe and Asia.
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023
The wink, wink, nod, nod travels from office designers, builders, owners, Boards of trustees and right through ro security.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
He tried ro sound casual, as though this was a throwaway comment of no real importance, but he was not sure he had achieved the right effect; Lupin’s smile was a little too understanding.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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