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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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Tradeweb TW 1.07%increase; up pointing triangle Markets agreed to buy fixed-income trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion, a deal that will position it earlier in the credit lifecycle and expand capabilities into grey markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Cumbria Wildlife Trust said the increase was down to a new breeding pair joining the longstanding pair known as Blue 35 and White TW last year.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

On 17, he drained a putt that was nearly 24 feet, and finished with a putt of 7½ feet, removing his black TW cap and easing into a smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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

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

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 Charles W. Sanders

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

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