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  • tho
    tho
    conjunction
    an informal, simplified spelling of though.
  • tho'
    tho'
    conjunction
    a variant spelling of though

tho

American  
[thoh] / ðoʊ /
Or tho'

conjunction

  1. an informal, simplified spelling of though.


tho' British  
/ ðəʊ /

conjunction

  1. informal a variant spelling of though

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"I'll have the lawyers and god take it from here tho," the Super Bass singer posted on X on Sunday.

From BBC May 27, 2024

For those who didn’t register the dismissal, a second slide included text messages with the words: “I ain’t reading all that/ I’m happy for u tho/ or sorry that happened.”

From Slate Feb. 27, 2024

I was raised to fight fire with water, even tho my country’s amendments have failed me!

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 27, 2023

Reed appeared to confirm the report when he referenced it on the social media site X, writing: “done took out a real one, we gone shake back tho don’t worry”.

From Seattle Times Nov. 21, 2023

“I know what I know,” I say, even tho that’s been half the trouble, ain’t it?

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Hamilton wrote to his friend Edward Stevens in 1769 that he “would willingly risk my life, tho’ not my character, to exalt my station,” adding, “I wish there was a war.”

From New York Times May 3, 2017

Can do well tho' if don't strain to make things happen.

From The Guardian Nov. 1, 2015

Rather too much research showing here – tho' it was I remember a hard passage to write.

From The Guardian May 20, 2013

My personal inclination would therefore be to disparage the concept that our beekeeping should adopt chronic - tho' not continuous - administration of any such organohalide compound to our bees.

From Washington Post Mar. 8, 2010

Nor did they walk about waving their swords, tho’ some sported knives in their boots.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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