tho
conjunction
an informal, simplified spelling of though.
tho
American
[thoh]
/ ðoʊ /
Or
tho'
conjunction
tho'
British
/ ðəʊ /
conjunction
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"The character stuff is uncanny & weird tho, & it feels like artistic expression risks being squeezed out."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
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
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
“An Angela Bassett mother/daughter Oscar bait filmé where Angela has Alzheimer’s and Keke goes back to her childhood home to take care of her even tho they’re estranged and drama ensues WHEN.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
I find myself humming it, even tho it don’t have a tune, trying to get that feeling of connectedness, of belonging, of having someone there to say that you’re Here.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Her famous skulls, she insisted, were not memento mori: “The bones seem to cut sharply to the centre of something that is very keenly alive on the desert, even tho’ it is empty and untouchable.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2018
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
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
“Even tho’ the Queen can’t come, the officers always hold a ball in her honor,” Hannah said as she rolled out the pie dough.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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