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W.Va.

American  

abbreviation

  1. West Virginia.


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Lenny and Mandee Wilson, who are 47 years old and live in Charleston, W.Va., paid $255 a month last year for a low-end ACA plan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

They lived in Chelyan, W.Va., a hardscrabble coal-mining town outside Charleston.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2024

Margie Howells, an elementary math teacher in Wheeling, W.Va., first went researching best practices because there weren’t as many resources for dyscalculia, a math learning disability, as there were for dyslexia.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

For Lorna Adkins, who runs Growing Places from her home in Huntington, W.Va., that’s not an option for her families: “Raise tuition? Not in West Virginia, not in this economy, not here.”

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

W.Va., obtaining the following composition: In 1000 c.c.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

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