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TW

American  

abbreviation

  1. trigger warning.


tw British  

abbreviation

  1. Taiwan

"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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Described as having "cracks all over", TW Gaze auctioneers in Diss, Norfolk valued the 18th Century vase at between £80 and £120.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2023

By 2024, for instance, BloombergNEF projects that the world is expected to have the capacity to produce almost 1 TW of photovoltaic panels each year: that alone could meet one-seventh of today’s annual electricity demand.

From Scientific American Nov. 23, 2022

Too bad he didn’t inspect it closer to see "TW" stamped on the bottom.

From Fox News Dec. 7, 2021

TW Workshop Tracy Wilkinson produces handmade ceramics, one-of-a-kind furniture, home accessories, and cotton t-shirts at home in Mt.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2021

By this time Dennis and Norton had gone into the living room and started to watch TW but right where they could keep an eye on timing the phone call.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

I wanted to quit Twitter, but my fingers were as if possessed, typing command+n, tw, enter at any lull in the workday, letting autofill take care of the rest.

From The Guardian Jan. 31, 2020

I can travel through the area of Charlotte I live in, about ten miles from center city with a police substation tw miles away and rarely see a cop.

From New York Times Sep. 17, 2016

All summer They have lived On candies and plums, Bunches of grapes From their tw In the San Joaquin Valley.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

In ordinary texts some survive, especially as objects of verbs, namely, wi, tw, tn, sw, st.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Th, as in thine, thin; thd, breath'd; thr, three; thst, breath'st; thw, thwack; thz, writhes; tl, title; tld, settl'd; tldst, settl'dst; tlst,settl'st; tlz, nettles; tr, truuk; ts, fits; tw, twirl.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.

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