Wb
1 Americanabbreviation
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warehouse book.
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water ballast.
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waybill.
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westbound.
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water ballast
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Also: W/B, WB. waybill
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westbound
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Revenue, after deducting fees paid to partner Wb sites, fell to $1 billion from $1.09 billion a year earlier.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2015
The authorities quoted and the abbreviations representing them are as follows: Wb.
From A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families by Otis Ashmore
For the original meaning of the word, see Wb.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
For the derivation of this word from the French tabis, a kind of silk, see Wb.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
Nares says that antlers is an error here, the word meaning "the short brow horns, not the branched horns;" but see Wb.
From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An attack on the drone producer, WB Group, is clearer cut.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Phew!” the WB execs said, exhaling and wiping their brows.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Confusion follows the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling, Netflix backs off the WB deal, and Blue Owl sparks private credit panic.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
“Dawson’s Creek” ran on the WB, the now-defunct television network, from 1998 to 2003, and marked the rise of a new kind of teen TV drama, one with adult stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
In the same way if we mate a hybrid and a black fowl, half of the progeny will be black and half will be blue, that is, there could only be WB and BB types.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
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