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Sawbwa
Sawbwa, the Burmese rendering of the Shan saopha, is the title for the hereditary rulers of the Shan States of eastern Burma, now Myanmar, from the thirteenth century until 1959.
Sawdust and Tinsel
Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton, aka The Naked Night) is Ingmar Bergman's 1953 Swedish circus drama about humiliation, his first Sandrews production and first collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist.
Sawed-off shotgun
A sawed-off shotgun, also known as a short-barreled shotgun, is a shotgun whose barrel or stock has been shortened below legal length thresholds, carrying a reputation as a criminal's gun since Prohibition.
Saweetie
Saweetie is the stage name of Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper, born 1993, an American rapper from the San Francisco Bay Area known for "ICY GRL" and "My Type."
Sawei
Sawei, Ulithian for "food basket", is a Micronesian exchange system linking Yap with the Caroline Islands through tribute and gift exchange, centered on Yap's Gagil district.
Sawerigading
Sawerigading is the main hero of the La Galigo epic, a pre-Islamic Bugis mythological cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, estimated at about 6,000 folio pages.
Sawfish
Sawfish (Pristidae) are rays with a long tooth-edged rostrum used to stun prey and sense electric fields. Five species, all IUCN Critically Endangered since 2021; threatened by bycatch and mangrove nursery loss.
Sawfly
Sawflies (suborder Symphyta, Hymenoptera) are stingless, broad-waisted relatives of wasps whose saw-like ovipositor cuts plant tissue for eggs; caterpillar-like larvae with 6+ prolegs defoliate trees, and Btk does not control them.
Sawing a woman in half
Sawing a woman in half, also called Sawing Through a Woman, is the classic stage magic illusion first performed by P.T. Selbit in London on 17 January 1921, with Horace Goldin's head-and-feet box variant and patent following in 1921-1923.
Sawiris family
The Sawiris family (ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ) is a Coptic Egyptian business family from Sohag that built the Orascom conglomerate, founded by Onsi Sawiris in 1950 and led today by his three sons.
Sawlon of Mohnyin
Sawlon of Mohnyin, also written Sa Lun, was a Shan saopha, or ruler, of Mohnyin in northern Burma who captured Ava in the 1520s and installed his son on its throne.
Sawmill
A sawmill, also called a lumber or timber mill, is a facility where logs are cut into lumber, ranging from portable units to mills processing 20,000 m³ yearly.
Sawney Bean
Sawney Bean, or Alexander Bean, is a legendary Scottish figure said to have led a cannibal family that robbed and ate travelers from an Ayrshire sea cave for 25 years.
Sawonjeon
Sawonjeon (사원전) was land granted to Korean Buddhist temples as operating funds, first recorded in 451 under Silla; under Goryeo it reached a reported one-sixth of national land.
Sawt El Ghad
Sawt El Ghad (صوت الغد, "Voice of Tomorrow") is a Beirut-based Lebanese FM radio station founded in 1997, mixing hit music with political news and broadcasting in Lebanon on 96.7 and 97.1 MHz.
SawTeen See
SawTeen See is a structural engineer known for supertall buildings, who co-founded Leslie E. Robertson Associates and led the structural design of the 679-m Merdeka 118 Tower.
Sawtooth instability
The sawtooth instability is a magnetohydrodynamic instability of the tokamak plasma core in which central density and temperature rise slowly, then collapse periodically in a sawtooth crash, first observed in 1974.
Sawtooth wave
The sawtooth wave, or saw wave, is a periodic waveform that rises or falls linearly each cycle and then jumps back, resembling saw teeth; it contains every harmonic and is standard in sound synthesis.
Sawtry
Sawtry (Saltreim, Saltrede) is a Cambridgeshire village, historically in Huntingdonshire, on Ermine Street. Domesday 1086 three manors; Cistercian Sawtry Abbey founded 1147, dissolved 1536; four scheduled monuments.
Sawyer (robot)
Sawyer is a single-arm collaborative robot introduced by Rethink Robotics of Boston on March 19, 2015, complementing the company's two-armed Baxter for precise factory work.
Sawyer Brown
Sawyer Brown is an American country band formed in 1981 in Apopka, Florida, from Don King's road band. Winners of Star Search's inaugural season, they placed three singles at number one on the Billboard country chart and have played over 6,000 shows.
Sawyer Fredericks
Sawyer Fredericks (born 1999) is an American Americana folk singer-songwriter from Fultonville, New York, who won The Voice season 8 in 2015 under Pharrell Williams and later recorded independently, releasing albums including A Good Storm and No Need to Wonder.
Sawyer Robertson
Sawyer Robertson, Baylor quarterback from Lubbock, Texas; former Mississippi State four-star recruit; threw 7,616 yards and 61 TDs in three Baylor seasons, second-team All-Big 12 in 2025, signed by the Raiders as an undrafted free agent.
Sawyer Spielberg
Sawyer Avery Spielberg, American actor born 1992 in Los Angeles, son of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw; trained at Atlantic Theater Company, lead debut in Honeydew (2020), later Masters of the Air and Materialists.
Sawyer Sullivan
Sawyer Sullivan is an American compound archer from Minnesota, a Texas A&M collegiate shooter, 2021 cadet 50 m world record holder (714), 2023 world team champion, Berlin mixed team world champion, and Santiago 2023 Pan Am silver medalist.
Sawyer Sweeten
Sawyer Storm Sweeten, American child actor (1995-2015) who played Geoffrey Barone, twin son on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005), alongside twin Sullivan and sister Madylin; died by suicide at 19 in Texas; honored by scholarship, Sawyer's Playhouse, and 2025 reunion tribute.
SAX J1808.4-3658
SAX J1808.4-3658 is a transient low-mass X-ray binary in Sagittarius, about 12,000 light years away, whose neutron star spins at 401 Hz and in 1998 became the first accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar.
Saxagliptin anhydrous
Saxagliptin anhydrous (BMS-477118, CAS 361442-04-8) is the anhydrous form of saxagliptin, a DPP-4 inhibitor for type 2 diabetes marketed as the monohydrate; FDA approved 2009 as Onglyza, with increased heart failure hospitalization risk in SAVOR-TIMI 53.
Saxan
FC Saxan Gagauz Yeri, a Moldovan football club from Ceadîr-Lunga, Gagauzia founded 15 July 2010; Divizia A champion 2013/14, 2014 Cupa Chișinăului winner, 2015 Europa League debutant vs Apollon Limassol, promoted 2025 then merged into Politehnica UTM.
SaxaVord Spaceport
SaxaVord Spaceport, formerly Shetland Space Centre, is a licensed vertical launch spaceport on the island of Unst, Shetland, the UK's first, licensed in December 2023.