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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.

About two hours north of Cosgrove's farm, agronomist and farmer Belinda Eastough, 59, recalls the mouse plague that hit WA about five years ago.

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

Benjamin W. Veghte directs the WA Cares Fund, Washington’s long-term-care social-insurance program, and is writing here in a personal capacity.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 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

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

They may have been in t' same trade, Martha," interposed Susannah, "but Ted comes off a better pastur' nor ivver Barjona wa' raised on.

From Windyridge by W. Riley

The wa' here is supposed to mean the wall, which, in some old castles, surrounded the court.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

"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

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 J. L. Hughes

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

“If China gives a concession to Sri Lanka, it will have to give the same concession to other borrowers,” said economist W.A.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022

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

Then the first American typewriter, called a "typographer," was patented by W.A.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

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