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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 am still shaking,” he added, “and tho I dont show it I’m not OK.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

Garcia - a Gold Glove finalist who has one of the best arms in the big leagues - threw a 94.6 mph rocket to the plate tho easily cut down Walker.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

Farther on is a general store with a mechanic’s garage by it, tho I don’t see much by way of heavy machinery around.

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

I've really enjoyed it, tho' it makes one feel rather blank in the head.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2010

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

I kept my head down, but lifted my eyes, tho’ they pained me.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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