TIA
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tias
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TIA launched a hotline this month for member companies to reach out about cargo and strategic theft; it received more than 40 reports in the first few days, Burroughs said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Capitol attending physician wrote, "There is no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson's disease."
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2023
TIA is an acronym for a transient ischemic attack, a brief stroke.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
“There is no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, TIA or movement disorder such as Parkinson’s disease,” Dr. Monahan wrote.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
Much to his father's annoyance he quit the bank to work in comics and in 1958 "Mortadelo and Filemon", featuring two secret agents who work for the TIA, a parody of the CIA, was born.
From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2023
“My tia did not make it,” John Martinez wrote in a tweet about Garcia, his aunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
“My tia did not make it,” John Martinez wrote on Twitter about his aunt, Irma Garcia, a fourth-grade teacher at Robb Elementary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2022
"My family is from the North. I do get the sensation of the memories of my grandmothers, or my tia, when eating certain dishes like albondigas."
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021
She gets 17,000,000 tons from mines in four provinces: Nova Sco tia, New Brunswick, Alberta and British Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She and tia Estela used to share a cramped, dusty room all the way in the back of the house.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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She is clever and surprisingly funny even when talking about serious things — from structural racism in immigration policy to the tios, tias and ancestors who have shaped her studies and her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
I’m thinking about my tias, I’m thinking about my Tia Felicia, I’m thinking about my mom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Those babbies and tias and friends most likely died after being isolated from friends and family in their final days.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021
“The majority of people in those trainings were 60 plus, they were tias, they were abuelas,” Makam said.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2018
From the Gael. and Ir. taosg, to pour, tias, tide, flood, may be the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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