U.K.
abbreviation
United Kingdom.
U.K.
Americanabbreviation
UK
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British
abbreviation
uk
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British
abbreviation
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Government bond prices have been falling and yields rising to multi-decade highs in countries including Japan, the U.K. and Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Information about any potential attempt to evade the controls on donations is for the police to consider,” the U.K. election watchdog said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
U.K. businesses polled in August expected to raise their prices at a slower pace than they did in July, according to a Bank of England survey released Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The book I bought that day is dedicated to the doctor who helped Steinem get an abortion back in 1957, a decade before the practice was legal in the U.K., where it was performed.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
In late 1942, some officers had talked about recruiting her and her team to work with the U.K. on “outstanding problems”—which perhaps included Enigma.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Reform UK supporters gather in Birmingham for the party's annual conference.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Fans had travelled from across the UK and the world to see the rapper, including Prince Dean Sithole, who hailed Jay-Z as one of his role models.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The paper says the Reform UK leader has admitted his party needs to "professionalise" after "loose pub talk".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The Seal Research Trust, external, based in Cornwall, has backed calls from the UK Seal Alliance to make the deliberate disturbance of seals an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
That is why, when you look at judicial rhetoric in the UK and US, the standard stipulation is that “proof” means not certainty, but the ability to demonstrate a set of propositions “beyond reasonable doubt.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Epstein advised Bannon: "I think staying as long as you can uk . Best- so people get the commitment of your follow through."
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
Take a look at this uk series: it's brilliant.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2015
A friend told me when shes goes back home to poland nearly all her friends have moved away more in the uk.
From Economist ● Apr. 8, 2013
Online Sales Executive - Consumer Publishing moriati media uk ltd. our client, a leading uk consumer publisher, is lo…. to £20,000 + comm.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2010
In Natchez they are hu, ah, gan, uk-woh, upku-tepish, oka-poo: in Maya, hu, ca, can, uk, uapxæ, hunkal.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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