tho
conjunction
an informal, simplified spelling of though.
tho
American
[thoh]
/ ðoʊ /
Or
tho'
conjunction
tho'
British
/ ðəʊ /
conjunction
Example Sentences
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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
In another note that same day, she said, “I think of you infinitely, tho’ I can’t say it.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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