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  • vs.
    vs.
    abbreviation
    verse.
  • v.s.
    v.s.
    abbreviation
    vide supra.
  • V.S.
    V.S.
    abbreviation
    Veterinary Surgeon.
  • VS
    VS
    abbreviation
    Veterinary Surgeon
  • vs
    vs
    abbreviation
    versus
Synonyms

vs.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. verse.

  2. versus.


v.s. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. vide supra.


V.S. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Veterinary Surgeon.


VS 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Veterinary Surgeon

"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

v.s. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. vide supra See vide

"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

vs 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. versus

"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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I guess networks aren’t interested in promoting “Lakers vs. LeBron TBA.”

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Additional research is needed to separate the effects of caffeinated coffee vs. various compounds in coffee.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Millie Bobby Brown, who also appeared in “Godzilla vs. Kong,” was among those who shared tributes to Hottle following the news of her death.

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If you decided to press the button, you probably would have reversed your decision if the stakes had been $100,000 vs. $3,000.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

This is directly analogous to the "car v.s. driver" question posed.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2015

The film is to be based on the Rolling Stone article “Anonymous v.s. Steubenville,” and will reportedly focus on Lostutter’s life and role in the hacker collective Anonymous, The Hollywood reports.

From Time Apr. 2, 2014

IV, 12, ad fin., note, for the statement that he was “Bishop” of Ripon.498.King of Northumbria, v.s. c.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

For the circumstances which led Egbert to undertake his work among the Columban monasteries, v.s. c.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

Levit., xi, 3, and Deut., xiv, 6.712.Apparently reserved and kept in the Infirmary for the Communion of the dying.713.Matins were sung soon after midnight.714.Coldingham, v.s. c.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

This tale of life and aspiration in colonial Trinidad is one of V.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

The 20th century’s most piercing diagnostician of societies—as V.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

His credits included fiction by future Nobel laureates Morrison,Doris Lessing and V.S.

From Seattle Times Jun. 14, 2023

Building on an essay she wrote in The Paris Review during the height of #MeToo, Dederer explores the moral dimensions of art made by people who behaved monstrously, from Pablo Picasso to V.S.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2023

“The fact that V.S. came to see me on the exact same day you disappeared. The fact that she somehow figured out where you were. The fact that Gen had a jump rope.”

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“When we win in bras, we create a halo across the entire VS brand,” Ms. Super boasts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

“When we win in bras, we create a halo across the entire VS brand,” Super said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 2, 2026

Go ahead 2-run homerun game tied at 7-7 in the 7th inning VS.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

"Generation comes and goes, but the nation stays," he wrote in a message read aloud by his deputy, VS Atem, as he was too weak to speak himself.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2025

The conditional probability of the card being red-red given that it’s not black-black is VS, but that’s not the situation here.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

It depends on the respondent’s mood when asked and even the questions: “Are you happy?” vs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

He was a high school senior in 1954 when Warren, the new chief justice, spoke for a unanimous court to strike down racial segregation in the case of Brown vs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Don’t miss: Robinhood’s new $695 Platinum card vs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

US actress Kaylee Hottle, who starred in the Godzilla vs Kong movie series, has died in a car crash at age 18.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

All over town, posters went up that read: Del Mar August 12, 1938 Seabiscuit vs.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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