West Africa.
Western Australia.
Marine Insurance. with average.
Washington (state)
Western Australia
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This time, farmers in WA first began reporting plague-like numbers of mice in March, with their neighbours in South Australia following suit shortly after.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
In 2019, it set up the WA Cares Fund, a universal public-insurance program that gives all workers in the state a way to earn affordable long-term-care coverage.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
It originated from what scientists consider Australia's first 'Great Barrier Reef,' a Devonian era reef system located in the Kimberley region of northern WA.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The biggest power plant in Texas, WA Parish near Thompsons, Texas, emitted 49% more sulfur dioxide last year, or 36,000 tons—more than all but six states that year, according to NRDC’s analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It would be so easy to finish and then come back here, where WA 27 loops right back to home.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
At long last, it is the turn of the Paralympics to bid 'konnichi wa' to Tokyo.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2021
I war considered ’bove de common for dat age, an’ wa’ employed in de house ob de chief which war called de palace.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
Of this we have an intimation in the old ballad of ‘Hardyknute’—beginning “Stately stept he east the wa’, And stately stept he west.”
From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
In the second verse he says: O gin my love were yon red rose if That grows upon the castle wa’; And I mysel’ a drop o’ dew, Into her bonie breast to fa’!
From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.
"O tell us, tell us, May Margaret, And dinna to us len, O wha is that, May Margaret, You and the wa' between?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
THOMPSONS, Texas—One of the fastest-growing counties in the nation is also home to one of its biggest coal-fired power plants: the W.A.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Ms. Kamat earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and is a first-grade teacher at W.A.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
He’s 56 now, and when he delivered his pitch for W.A.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
To say that Will was “wealthy” is a bit of an understatement: He was the son of Sen. W.A.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2021
When he left Harper’s Weekly he was succeeded by W.A.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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