Tex.
abbreviation
Texan.
Tex.
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Texan.
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noun
Etymology
Origin of tex
C20: from French, from textile textile
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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
Like most of the impressionable boys … you confuse leadership with obligation to be a sucker,” a man from Mineral Wells, Tex., wrote to Sevareid.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 23, 2023
As she studied the Mother Paula’s advertisement, she said, “We’ve got two choices, Tex. We either tell him, or we don’t.”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
“Tex,” on the other hand, is a rich tex.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2019
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
The U.S. demand for Italian shoes, Pucci pants and British woolens has lifted imports of clothes and tex tiles this year by 18%, to $853 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as he spoke, the Government was getting ready to stiffen prices by cutting back one major category of imports: tex tiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who'll tell you w'at your wheat Will bring in Fevuary nex', In jus' so smood an' quiet vay De curé read his tex'.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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