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YBA

British  

abbreviation

  1. young British artist

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The Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy started its YBA Play program for would-be baseball players as young as 6 in 2016, two years after the facility east of the Anacostia River opened.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

The YBA Play program hasn’t produced big leaguers — which isn’t the point, anyway.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022

The onetime ladette of the YBA movement is now a 50-something woman living quietly in rural Suffolk.

From BBC • May 6, 2015

Though he never had the public profile of many of his contemporaries, Hume remembers with fondness the mad, bad days of the YBA era.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

He is a hardcore original YBA whose most famous early work, Bullet Hole, appeared in the exhibition Freeze that his friend Damien Hirst curated in a docklands warehouse in 1988.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2013