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Recent Examples of aw In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all. Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2025 And then … aw, just cue up the video player for the epic Francisco Lindor homer that won this thing! Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024 Deadline was the first to report the news, with the outlet saying Quinn has been inseparable with a guitar — aw — while filming Fantastic Four overseas. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024 Trump Media, which trades as DJT on the Nasdaq, aw its market cap fall more than 40% between Tuesday afternoon and Friday. Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jake Piazza,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024 There’s that, ‘Oh gosh’ kind of ‘aw shucks’ thing going on. Gary Graff, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024 Studies of fathers have generated some alarmist headlines over the years, and Hrdy has kindly collated them: no dad joke: fatherhood shrinks the brain; aw,nuts! Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024

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“Aw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aw. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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