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• WA
  WA

  abbreviation

  Washington (approved especially for use with zip code).
• wa'
  wa'

  noun

  wall.
• W.A.
  W.A.

  abbreviation

  West Africa.

WA

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Washington (approved especially for use with zip code).

2. Banking. withholding agent.

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wa' ² American  

[waw, wah] / wɔ, wɑ /

noun

Scot.

1. wall.

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W.A. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. West Africa.

2. Western Australia.

3. Marine Insurance. with average.

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WA British  

abbreviation

1. Washington (state)

2. Western Australia

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Example Sentences

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WA wa' W.A.

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

Taxonomists identified the collected specimens, which are now stored permanently in the WA Museum's Collection and Research Facility to support future research.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 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

Donations to Beauty of Bronze can be made online or by check payable to Community Foundation of North Central Washington, Beauty of Bronze at 9 South Wenatchee Ave., Wenatchee, WA 98801.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 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

"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

He drest moas like de ress ob dem—only on de top ob him head dar wa’ a big spread ob feather, shinin’ like de tail o’ a peacock.”

From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid

I see Massr Looey ma’seff; an’ sure he wa’ stayin’ at de house for more ’n a week.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

Da wa’ buffaloes and elephants, an’ de rhinoceros, an’ hipperpotamusses, an’ dar war big monkeys ob de baboon ’pecies.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid

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

“The church will continue to offer full transparency and cooperation with W.A. Police,” Bishop Michael Morrissey, who replaced Saunders in the Broome Diocese in 2021, said in a statement.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

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

At Tel-el-Kebir camp visits were exchanged between the various W.A. units.

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