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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Kyle and Stephanie Johnson of Austin, Tex., were visiting the French capital with their 7-year-old son when they were told the museum was closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 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
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
She’d sometimes visit the World Champions Centre, her training facility in Katy, Tex., but that wasn’t unusual because her family owns it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
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
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
Now to understand them words perfect you have got to divide the tex.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 by Marietta Holley
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