Tex.
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Texan.
Tex.
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Etymology
Origin of tex
C20: from French, from textile textile
Example Sentences
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The Centuries, a tanker carrying about two million barrels of Venezuelan oil, was seized last week and is now headed toward Galveston, Tex., where its oil will be unloaded, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
In July, Samsung signed a $16.5 billion supply deal with Tesla to make chips at its Taylor, Tex., facility.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025
That’s what happens in any town that becomes a magnet for new employment, such as—to name a couple at random—Austin, Tex., and San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
In San Antonio, Tex., for example, the city has up-to-date codes, but in the unincorporated part of Bexar County outside city limits, county government has set no codes whatsoever.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 24, 2023
“Pretty fancy,” he said, “but it’s too late for fancy, Tex. Now it’s time for hardball.”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
“Tex,” on the other hand, is a rich tex.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2019
Britain has no complete tabulation of its retail establish ments, France of its consumption of tex tiles, Germany of its volume of advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
To counteract these trends, a handful of modern architects have moved back towards rough tex tures and hand-worked surfaces to get away from the "over-calipered look."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a Hong Kong tex tile manufacturer says: "We know we cannot just flood the world, but we do think we should be entitled to a fair share of the annual growth."
From Time Magazine Archive
Not but what this is a very good tex for rural districts.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
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