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WCT Finals

The WCT Finals, also known as the World Championship Tennis Finals, was a tennis tournament in Dallas for the top eight players of the WCT rankings.

WCW Monday Nitro

WCW Monday Nitro (Nitro) was World Championship Wrestling's live Monday-night TNT wrestling show, September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, created by Eric Bischoff and Ted Turner, which beat WWF Raw for 83 straight weeks in the Monday Night Wars before WCW's sale to WWE.

WCW World Heavyweight Championship

WCW World Heavyweight Championship: WCW's top singles wrestling title, January 11, 1991 to December 9, 2001. First champion Ric Flair, final champion Chris Jericho; associated with the Big Gold Belt and unified into the Undisputed WWE Championship.

WCW World Tag Team Championship

The WCW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title contested from 1975 to 2001 and retired by the WWF in 2001.

WD 1145+017

WD 1145+017, also designated EPIC 201563164, is a white dwarf 174 parsecs from Earth, the first known to be orbited by dust clouds from disintegrating planetesimals.

WD Austerity 2-10-0

The WD Austerity 2-10-0, also known as the WD class 8F 2-10-0, is a heavy freight steam locomotive designed by R. A. Riddles during the Second World War; 150 were built between 1943 and 1945.

WD Austerity 2-8-0

The WD Austerity 2-8-0, also known as the WD class 8F 2-8-0, is a British heavy freight steam locomotive built for wartime military service from 1943.

WD repeat and coiled-coil-containing protein family

WD repeat and coiled-coil-containing protein family (WDCP, pfam15390; human gene WDCP/C2orf44, protein Q9H6R7): eukaryotic scaffold proteins combining WD repeats and a coiled coil. Human WDCP (721 aa, 79 kDa) binds the Hck SH3 domain, forms oligomers, and fuses with ALK in colorectal cancer.

WD repeat-containing and planar cell polarity effector protein Fritz

Fritz (frtz, CG17657) is a Drosophila WD40-repeat protein and planar cell polarity effector that links core PCP asymmetry to the actin cytoskeleton; its vertebrate ortholog WDPCP functions in ciliogenesis.

WD repeat-containing protein

WD repeat-containing (WD40/WDR) proteins, also called beta-transducin repeat proteins, are a large eukaryotic protein family whose ~40-residue tryptophan-aspartate-terminated repeats fold into beta-propeller scaffolds that assemble multiprotein complexes without enzymatic activity.

WD-40

WD-40 is a water-displacing, multi-use maintenance spray created in 1953 by Rocket Chemical Company of San Diego, first used to protect the Atlas Missile from rust.

WD40 repeat

WD40 repeat: ~40-residue Trp-Asp-terminated motif (WD repeat, beta-transducin repeat) folding into seven-bladed beta-propeller scaffolds for protein-protein interactions; non-catalytic, abundant in eukaryotes, disease-linked and druggable.

WDA (Whole Different Animal)

"WDA (Whole Different Animal)" is a 2026 hip-hop dance single by K-pop girl group aespa featuring G-DRAGON, released May 11, 2026 as a pre-release single of the album LEMONADE, peaking at number 4 on Billboard Taiwan.

WDE Partners, L.P.

WDE Partners, L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership formed in 2011 as a private financing vehicle for the West Deptford Energy power plant in New Jersey, affiliated with LS Power.

WDR Big Band

WDR Big Band: Cologne-based professional jazz big band of German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, descended from a 1946 dance orchestra, Grammy-winning for Some Skunk Funk (2005), chief conductor Bob Mintzer since 2016.

WDR5

WDR5 (WD repeat domain 5, BIG3, SWD3) is a human 334-residue WD40 β-propeller scaffold protein on chromosome 9q34.2, core subunit of SET1/MLL WRAD complexes for H3K4 methylation, MYC cofactor, and anti-cancer drug target with no approved drug yet.

WDRB

WDRB, also known as FOX-41, is a Fox-affiliated television station in Louisville, Kentucky. Signed on in 1971 as the city's first independent station, it transmits from Floyds Knobs, Indiana.

We

We: the first-person plural pronoun of English (we, us, our, ours), from Old English wē. Covers inclusive and exclusive senses, royal and editorial we, and clusivity distinctions absent in European languages.

We – Power of the People

We – Power of the People (Ми, снага народа) is a Serbian political party led by Branimir Nestorović, known for anti-EU, anti-NATO, and pro-Russian stances.

We – Voice from the People

We – Voice from the People (Mi – Glas iz naroda, MI–GIN) is a nationalist, Russophilic right-wing populist Serbian party founded in 2023; it won 4.82% and 13 seats in the December 2023 election, then split and expelled leader Branimir Nestorović.

We (Мы) (novel)

We (Мы) is Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920–1921 dystopian novel about the One State and mathematician D-503; first published in English in 1924, banned in the USSR until 1988, and a forerunner of Huxley and Orwell.

We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italian: C'eravamo tanto amati) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama by Ettore Scola following three former Resistance friends through thirty years of postwar Italian history.

We Are (Mexico)

Somos México (We Are Mexico), Mexican national political party registered by the INE on 25 June 2026; led by Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo and Cecilia Soto; born of the marea rosa opposition movement; ordered to change its name, pink color, and Mx emblem by 31 August 2026.

We Are (TV series)

We Are (คือเรารักกัน, Khue Rao Rak Kan) is a 2024 GMMTV Thai BL university romantic comedy, adapted from Pharawi's novel, airing 16 episodes on GMM25 from 3 April to 17 July 2024 with eight leads in four couples; it won Entertainment Program of the Year at Mint Awards 2024.

We Are Aliens

We Are Aliens (Wareware wa Uchūjin) is a 2026 Japanese animated drama, Kohei Kadowaki's feature debut, about two boys separated by a childhood betrayal; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026 and won Sitges Best Animated Feature.

We Are All Alone (怪你过分美丽)

We Are All Alone (怪你过分美丽, Guai Ni Guo Fen Mei Li) is a 2020 Chinese iQIYI workplace drama, 36 episodes, starring Qin Lan as agent Mo Xiangwan and Godfrey Gao as Mo Bei in his final role.

We Are All Trying Here

We Are All Trying Here (모두가 자신의 무가치함과 싸우고 있다) is a 2026 JTBC/Netflix Korean drama by writer Park Hae-young and director Cha Young-hoon, starring Koo Kyo-hwan and Go Youn-jung; 12 episodes aired April 18 to May 24, 2026, ending at a series-high 5.3 percent Nielsen rating.

We Are Charlie Kirk

We Are Charlie Kirk is an AI-generated gospel power ballad credited to anonymous act Spalexma, released September 16, 2025, six days after Charlie Kirk's assassination; it topped Spotify's Viral 50 Global chart and became a viral ironic meme.

We Are Family (2010 film)

We Are Family is a 2010 Hindi family drama directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra, starring Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, and Arjun Rampal, remaking the Hollywood film Stepmom.

We Are Family (song)

"We Are Family" is a 1979 disco song written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Sister Sledge, peaking at No. 2 Hot 100 and No. 1 R&B, adopted by the 1979 World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the LGBT community, and added to the National Recording Registry in 2016.