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w

The twenty-third (23rd) letter of the alphabet. "w" comes after "v" and before "x"

w

(= W) the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet

W

the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet (= watt) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm (= tungsten) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite (= west) the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

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double-u W written mode written n

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Simple sentences

George W. Bush was born in the state of Connecticut in 1946.
George W. Bush choked on a pretzel and fainted.
I didn't think the American people would reelect George W. Bush.
George W. Bush was the worst president in American history.

Movie subtitles

W-w-w-hat?
Where are we going? W-What are you doing?
Magistrate, w-w-why.
W-why would you call Mom and Dad when I'm throwing a party and tell them the house was on fire?
W-what do you mean?
Yeah, so, w-where is this Aviator now?
My sewing club, now unionized, B-T-W, made us some sweet Bonnie and Clyde costumes.
DIF Wiesbaden, and the F. W. Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden.
John W. Berryman was here to see it last month.
It's a W.J.Z. Well, I walked right into that one.
His name is Mr. John W. Berryman.
Mr. Roscoe W. Chandler.
Mr. Horatio W. Jamison, Field Secretary of Captain Spaulding.
My name is Roscoe W. Chandler.
Roscoe W. Chandler.
W - l- iggle, wiggle.
This is the most preposterous- W-What do you take me for?
Well, Mr Deeds, does the name of Martin W. Semple mean anything to you?
In the interest of my client, relative of the late Martin W Semple, we cannot permit the fortune to be dissipated by a person whose incompetency and abnormality we shall prove beyond doubt.
W-E-L-L-S.
The action of this movie takes place prior to W.Wil. It does not claim to be a study of the morals of that period.
Anyway, the gentleman to your right happens to be the Mayor of this city, the Honorable W. H. Tillinghast.
W-W-Wake me up. Wake me up!
To point out and make public the dishonesty the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine now in complete control of the government of this state.
W-w-w-hat? You guys. What is wrong with you guys?
W-W-WE MOSTLY DO THIS TO PEOPLE WHO. don't know that we're doing it to them.
W. Will you excuse me a minute?
W-Well, why didn't you shove me away?
W-Word of honor.
With one purpose only: To point out and make public the dishonesty the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys' political machine now in complete control of the government of this state.

News and current affairs

Although President George W. Bush says he believes in markets, in this case he has called for voluntary action.
George W. Bush is obsessed with the war on terrorism, especially with the military response to terrorism.
Yet the agreement commits no one to any specific targets, least of all the United States, whose president, George W. Bush, will no longer be in office in 2009, when the tough decisions have to be made.
President George W. Bush has been short on neither initiatives nor catchy slogans and acronyms.
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush and their supporters created the current system, in which tax rates and eligibility thresholds are not punitive disincentives to enterprise.
Former President George W. Bush once explained terrorism as the expression of hatred for American freedom.
President George W. Bush has been skirting the question ever since he committed himself to an immigration agreement with Mexico when he visited President Vicente Fox in Guanajuato almost exactly five years ago.
This persistent acceleration in American productivity growth has, however, created a massive political problem for President George W. Bush.
Various tax cuts initiated by George W. Bush were set to expire at the end of 2010.
To do so would require calling for higher taxes, and that - as George H. W. Bush learned in 1992 - is no way to get re-elected.
In commemorating the 230th anniversary of America's independence last July, President George W. Bush noted that the patriots of the Revolutionary War believed that all men are created equal, and with inalienable rights.
President George W. Bush's Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point.
George W. Bush's disastrous war in Iraq has put Europe in a bind.
And South Africa's last apartheid leader, F. W. de Klerk, was initially perceived as just another apologist for the system - hardly the man to free Nelson Mandela and oversee the end of white minority rule.
America enjoyed a budget surplus only a decade ago, before George W. Bush's tax cuts, two wars, and recession created fiscal instability.
In February 1984, facing a quagmire, Reagan acceded to Vice President George H.W. Bush's recommendation to get out of Lebanon.
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush prevailed in the electoral college.
We were astonished during President George W. Bush's first term at the administration's hostility to science, reflected in its stance on climate change and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The United States' planned withdrawal of troops from Asia, which President George W. Bush announced on August 16, need not harm peace and stability in the region and particularly in Korea.
The success that US President George W. Bush and his special envoy, former Secretary of State James Baker, had in getting Iraq's foreign debts canceled or rescheduled shows what can be done when a policy is backed by political will.
Indeed, Obama even used a tactic similar to that of George H.W. Bush to win the day.
But we shouldn't allow American politicians who do not even possess passports to write us off with the same patronizing sneer that some Europeans used to reserve for President George W. Bush's administration and policies.
This month's deal between President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress to extend the tax cuts initiated a decade ago by President George W. Bush is being hailed as the start of a new bipartisan consensus.