W.G.
abbreviation
water gauge.
W.G.
American
Or
w.g.
abbreviation
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water gauge.
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weight guaranteed.
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wire gauge.
wg
1
British
abbreviation
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water gauge
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wire gauge
WG
2
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of WG
from W(indward Islands) G(renada)
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The film, which premiered Monday in Cannes, uses extensive archival footage to depict the Allied bombing campaign of Germany during World War II. The question at the heart of the film, inspired by W.G.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022
“The Natural History of Destruction,” which is based on a book of the same name by W.G.
From Reuters ● May 23, 2022
“It was as if mankind had already made way for another species,” I told my husband, stealing the line from the novelist W.G.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
The closer, “Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant,” is based on a character in German author W.G.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2019
Dugdale, of Gloucester, for so liberally supplementing my own store of photographs; to Mr. S. Browett, of Tewkesbury, for the loan of the wood block on page 17; and, lastly, to Mr. W.G.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
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From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2019
WG Grace was mobbed before he could step off the ship in Adelaide in 1891, Denis Compton was the Brylcreem boy and Geoffrey Boycott's name was scrawled on the Berlin Wall.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2023
It came from the estate of John Douglas, who played with the likes of WG Grace.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2022
“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation,” as WG Sebald wrote in his melancholy The Rings of Saturn.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2018
WG Sebald’s Autserlitz is dark, lyrical, moving, and at times simply ruthless in its manner of probing how we live in the wake of time.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
“This is a WG Panther. It’s an airsoft gun, which means it’s nothing but a toy. Look, the orange tip is colored black with a Sharpie.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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