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ma

[mah] / mɑ /
NOUN
Master of Arts
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NOUN
mental age
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"Good afternoon ma, I have not seen the hospital items"

From BBC Jul. 14, 2025

“I wonder what we did to you that makes you go there so often,” my ma said a few years back on the phone while I sat in the lobby of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2025

“Tunes hiv been whirlin aroon in the air an in ma heid an hairt since I wis a bairn, an I wis composing tunes an songs even then,” she wrote in her book.

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2022

“Think Marination ma kai with a 98118 twist …” they say on Facebook.

From Seattle Times Sep. 30, 2022

Seemed I could never use that word without thinking of my old home, my ma, my pa, my brother, our animals.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

“She the home girl thas what I meant , have mas love for her” Echeverria wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2025

"The mas has been slowly but surely dying, it's sad to see," Curdell says.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2024

I’m trying to ask writers: What does living mas mean?

From Slate Sep. 8, 2023

She’s still la mas chingona — the ultimate badass — emcee Enrique Cerna said as he welcomed her to the stage in October.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2023

“Caring for her own, best as she can. Like all us mas and pas.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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