Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation tactical ballistic missile
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- initialism engineering
tunnel -boring machine
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Examples
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Interestingly, although TBM is a good movie, it's not particularly a better movie than Advise and Consent, even though the book is far better than AaC's book.
A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury 2009
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When Chapter One of TBM is ready, I’ll mail you all and “shake the can”, alerting you that it’s time for you to make a payment.
“The Big Meow”: poll results | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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Assuming that all goes well, when TBM is finished, those who’ve subscribed to all ten installments (that’s how the book is structured at the moment, in ten chapters) will be getting a “hard copy” paperback produced via Lulu. com.
“The Big Meow”: poll results | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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The AskGramps site appears to be in what might be fairly classified as the "TBM" category.
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Equality: how do you know it's actually a "TBM" asking the question, and not some person trying to impersonate one to play the "devil's advocate"?
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The second example is that of Flight 19, a flight of 5 five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers, which disappeared off the Florida coast in 1945.
A New Book 2010
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This tunnel will be bored by the biggest TBM ever.
“Anyone Who Says There Aren’t Going to Be Cost Overruns Is Fooling Themselves.” « PubliCola 2010
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The TBM used for Brightwater, at 1/10 the size, are 50% broken-down.
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TBM: I accept the analogy as far as it goes, but climate change is a tragedy of the commons, right?
How BP flunked its risk tests James Ledbetter 2010
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TBM: You open your book talking about how state capitalist countries used the failure of Western markets in 2008 as a rationale for arguing the superiority of their own systems.
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