WA
abbreviation
Washington (approved especially for use with zip code).
WA
1 American
wa'
2
American
[waw, wah]
/ wɔ, wɑ /
noun
Scot.
W.A.
3
American
abbreviation
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West Africa.
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Western Australia.
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Marine Insurance. with average.
WA
British
abbreviation
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Washington (state)
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Western Australia
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On a recent visit to WA, he counted 30 to 40 active mice burrows when he walked a 100m distance of a one-metre wide strip.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Washington state enacted WA Cares to protect middle-class families from the risks that come with loved ones needing long-term care.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
A puzzling fossil from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation in WA has now been examined using advanced imaging techniques such as CT scanning and computed tomography.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
“Our WA Parish facility ran in 2025 within its permitted limits,” an NRG spokesman said, noting that emissions at all facilities fluctuate based on how often they operate and fuel variations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
For a day and a half, Annabelle runs on a brutally hot road, WA 970, through Cle Elum.
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
"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
He fell so that the head o' him took the wa' and fair dang him stupid.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"O healy, healy take me up,85 And healy set me down; And set my back until a wa', My foot to yird-fast stane."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Tune—"Hughie Graham" "O gin my love were yon red rose, "That grows upon the castle wa'; "And I mysel' a drap o' dew, "Into her bonnie breast to fa'!
From Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway
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
To the W.A. man he said, "Are you 28th?"
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett
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