Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation transient ischemic attack
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- initialism Telecommunications Industry Association
- initialism Thanks In Advance
- initialism medicine
Transient Ischemic Attack - initialism This Is Africa
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Examples
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In this case, the term TIA already has a specific meaning.
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TIA is a cover for the Communist Party here in the states.
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TIA is a Defense Department research project aimed at developing broad sweeps of commercial data, such as credit card records, store purchases, travel records,
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Total Information Awareness Action Alert 2003
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For the ordinary person, TIA is a giant suspicion-generating machine.
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But the Report doesn't discuss these issues -- even though TIA is already being tested on real data about real people.
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The idea behind TIA is to create a government-controlled database that would track all individual data from cradle to grave in an effort to predict who among us is a terrorist.
Answering Orwell 2003
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"Your mother probably had a neurological insult, either what we call a TIA, a transient ischemic attack, or a mini-stroke.
The 5th Horseman Patterson, James, 1947- 2006
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"Your mother probably had a neurological insult, either what we call a TIA, a transient ischemic attack, or a mini-stroke.
The 5th Horseman Patterson, James, 1947- 2006
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On his right hand, Foster put the Armenian letters for "TIA" -
Armenianow John Hughes 2009
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A few weeks ago, Zimmerman-Stein had a minor stroke, known as a TIA, possibly caused by stress.
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