Sa
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seaman apprentice.
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social anxiety.
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sexual assault (or abuse).
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semiannual.
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sex appeal.
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subject to approval.
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Salvation Army.
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seaman apprentice.
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South Africa.
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South America.
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South Australia.
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Salvation Army
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Sociedad Anónima
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Société anonyme
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South Africa
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South America
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South Australia
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Sturmabteilung: the Nazi terrorist militia, organized around 1924
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Saudi Arabia (international car registration)
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semiannual
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sex appeal
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sine anno
symbol
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Etymology
Origin of s.a.4
From Latin sine annō
Origin of S.A.6
< French société anonyme or Spanish sociedad anónima
Example Sentences
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If Sporting are to upset both Arsenal and Gyokeres and progress to the last four they would reach a stage Sa Pinto knows well.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
It takes a mere 10 minutes to escape traffic and explore the Mae Sa Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Just moments after Ryan Gravenberch's opener, Florian Wirtz slotted past Jose Sa to put the Reds 2-0 up.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
"Brazil's strategic situation is complicated," concluded Fernandes de Sa.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Sa planche de salut! they teased—his long plank to salvation—a slang expression meaning your last hope.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Ofcom said both AVS Group and Kick Online Entertainment SA had since rolled out age checks on some of their sites.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
At the Pozos Colorados terminal, which handles most of the country’s fuel imports, a subsidiary of state-controlled Ecopetrol SA unveiled Colombia’s largest storage tank in June, expanding capacity for refined products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
Earlier work led by Dr. Wang and Professor Tom Gordon, Head of Immunology at SA Pathology in South Australia, decoded the structure of this PF4 antibody in 2022.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
Launched in February, the fund owns big European industrials and defense suppliers such as Rhinemetall AG, BAE Systems PLC, Airbus SE, and Safran SA.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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If A is the area of the plate web in a vertical section, the intensity of shearing stress is fx = S/A and the intensity on horizontal sections is the same.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
The Po Yi and Ho Ni tribes are mentioned in the Yuan Shi, s.a.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
For examples of fees paid for absolution from an unjust excommunication see Minchinhampton Acc'ts, s.a.
From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch
For examples of bribery see Wing Acc'ts, s.a.
From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch
The name of LOB appears under the form Lo pou in the Yuan-shi, s.a.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Saturday. s.a., secundum artem=According to art; sine anno=Without date.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In a statement released Wednesday, Cuba's central bank said a foreign bank was severing ties with Fincimex S.A.,
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Luke Goebel is a guest on the panel “It Goes All the Way to the Top: Crime Organizations, Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Fiction” moderated by Oline Cogdill and featuring fellow authors Ace Atkins, S.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The Dianchi was tracked Friday as it transported 800,000 barrels of Venezuela crude owned by state-run Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., according to Kpler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
What hurt the outlook for Citi was $726 million in expenses the bank booked related to its sale of a 25% stake in its Mexico business, Grupo Financiero Banamex, S.A. de C.V.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2025
He was quite surprised to observe that this was a sweater, bearing the initials "S.A." braided across its front.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
He joined ACT UP; co-founded Kambal sa Lusog, a Filipino gay and lesbian group; and was a member of Godzilla, a loose collective of Asian American artists.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
"Para sa bayan," which means "for our country", she told a Filipino news crew after the match in Wellington.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
Head to the Seward Park Amphitheater to enjoy food, arts and craft booths, children’s games and cultural and contemporary performances, and help Pista sa Nayon preserve and share Filipino culture.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
To do this he cites approvingly an 1848 case and terms like “in ventre sa mere”:
From Slate ● May 5, 2022
The people sa in their stone chairs on each side of the room and the floor was left free down the middle.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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