Tim

¹ American

[tim] / tɪm /

noun

a male given name, form of Timothy.

Tim. ² American

abbreviation

Bible.

Timothy.

Tim. British

abbreviation

Timothy

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Search teams located human remains beneath dirt and debris on Friday evening, Police Superintendent Tim Anderson said, after a landslide hit a popular campsite in Mount Maunganui.

From BBC

“I spend a lot of time in C-suites,” said Tim Adams, head of the Institute of International Finance, a trade group for the financial services industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

New Zealand started strongly with opener Devon Conway and Tim Seifert taking on the opposition attack with a string of boundaries in a quickfire 43-run stand.

From Barron's

New Zealand started strongly with opener Devon Conway and Tim Seifert taking on the opposition attack in a quickfire 43-run stand.

From Barron's

Alan Moore and Frank Miller’s comics, Tim Burton’s blockbusters and a return to television as an animated noir made the ‘66 “Batman” seem like more and more of an anomaly.

From Salon

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