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YBA

British  

abbreviation

  1. young British artist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

He had some Hirsts, but they seem perfunctory, and the rest of the YBA generation are represented sparsely, even though they were all keen Bowie fans.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2016

Early works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sam Taylor-Wood will form part of Russia's first major retrospective of the YBA movement in September 2014 at the Ekaterina Foundation.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 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

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