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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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Binface has characterized his Clacton campaign as “people vs. the establishment,” a framing that is no doubt irksome to Farage, who views himself decidedly as the people, not the establishment.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2026

Revenue rose 25% to $16.1 billion vs. a consensus estimate of $14.43 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

When looking for a financial adviser, how do you weigh large vs. small firms?

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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

“Basketball vs. Face,” Tyler says, and I’d give him a dirty look if I didn’t think it’d restart the nose-gushing.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

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

An old British church at Canterbury, which had been desecrated by the heathen invaders, was restored for Christian use and dedicated to St. Pancras by Augustine.510.Eanfled, v.s. c.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

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 Cuthbert Bede

The MS. authority is about equal; but cf. infra, the statement that he died in the seventeenth year of his episcopate, which seems to be correct.371.651 a.d.; v.s. c.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

“I love the idea of the international hotel,” 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

In the opening pages of “The World Is What It Is,” his prizewinning 2008 biography of author V.S.

From Washington Post Mar. 23, 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

VS and Singh come from different layers of India's vast middle class and they are socially and economically different.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

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

A lower court in the same case — Mirabelli vs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Also, not all heroes neatly fit into the Chosen vs.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

But that territorial dispute spread through the airwaves as part of a bigger national rivalry - East Coast vs West Coast rap.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

So I dusted off my lederhosen, and we traveled to Kansas City, Mo., for Austria vs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

It was the day of the one baseball game I’d been dreading all year—East Shoal vs.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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