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WAGs

WAGs, short for "wives and girlfriends", is a term for the partners of high-profile footballers and athletes in other sports, made famous by tabloid coverage of England's 2006 World Cup squad.

WAGS (TV series)

WAGS (WAGS LA), E! reality series 2015-2017 about wives and girlfriends of professional athletes in Los Angeles; three seasons, Machete Productions, spin-offs WAGS Miami and WAGS Atlanta.

WAGS Miami

WAGS Miami, an E! reality series and first spin-off of WAGS, aired 2016–2017 (2 seasons, 17 episodes) following wives and girlfriends of Miami professional athletes; cancelled in 2018.

Wagyu (和牛) means Japanese beef cattle: four breeds, Japanese Black, Brown, Shorthorn, and Polled, plus their hybrids. Japanese Black exceeds 90% of production; A5 is the top grade; beef exports hit 73.1 billion yen in 2025.

Wah (estate manager of Meketre)

Wah was an ancient Egyptian official of the early Middle Kingdom who served as estate manager on chancellor Meketre's Theban estate, buried nearby in Western Thebes.

Wah (TT22)

Wah, a royal butler under Thutmose III, was buried in the 18th Dynasty tomb TT22 at el-Khokha in the Theban Necropolis, later partly usurped by Meryamun.

Wah Ching (华青)

Wah Ching (華青), a Chinese American gang founded in 1960s San Francisco Chinatown by foreign-born immigrant youths, evolved from street gang into organized crime, known for the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre and Los Angeles/San Gabriel Valley operations.

Sep 20, 2026

Wah Chiu

Wah Chiu is a Hong Kong-born structural biologist who develops cryo-EM methods for atomic structures of molecular machines, and a Stanford and SLAC professor since 2017.

Wah-Sut

Wah-Sut is a state-planned Middle Kingdom town at South Abydos, Egypt, founded around 1850 BCE to house the community maintaining the mortuary cult of King Senwosret III.

Oct 3, 2026

Wah-Wah

Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.

Wah-wah pedal

The wah-wah pedal, also known as a wah pedal, is a foot-controlled guitar effects pedal that sweeps a resonant filter to make a vowel-like sound.

Waha (natural gas hub)

Waha is a natural gas pricing hub in West Texas near Permian Basin production, setting the benchmark price for gas sold in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

Waha Oil and Gas Field

The Waha Oil and Gas Field is an onshore oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered in 1960 and producing since 1963; with Gialo, Dahra, and Defa it forms Libya's biggest producing area.

Waha Oil Company

Waha Oil Company (Arabic: شركة الواحة للنفط) is a Libyan oil and gas producer in Tripoli, a joint venture of Libya's NOC, ConocoPhillips, and TotalEnergies operating the Waha fields.

Oct 21, 2026

WAHA trial

WAHA (Walnuts And Healthy Aging) trial: 2-center, 2-year randomized controlled trial (NCT01634841) of 708 elders in Barcelona and Loma Linda eating 30–60 g walnuts daily; no overall effect on cognitive decline, exploratory Barcelona subgroup benefit.

Wahab Riaz

Wahab Riaz (وہاب ریاض), born 1985 in Lahore, is a Pakistani former left-arm fast bowler: 27 Tests, 91 ODIs, 36 T20Is, 237 wickets, 2015 World Cup spell to Shane Watson, later PCB chief selector 2023-24.

Wahab'il Yahuz

Wahab'il Yahuz, also written Wahabʾil Yaḥuz, was a prince of the Radmān and Khawlān tribes who became king of Sabaʾ in the mid-2nd century AD.

Wahaha Group

Wahaha Group (娃哈哈), formally Hangzhou Wahaha Group, is a Chinese beverage producer founded in 1987 by Zong Qinghou, known for purified water and AD calcium milk.

Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی)

Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی), Pakistani TV actor; theater 2007, Geo TV producer 2011, screen debut 2015 in Ishq Ibadat; breakthrough as Murtasim in Tere Bin (2023) opposite Yumna Zaidi; noted for Jo Bichar Gaye, Jin Ki Shadi Un Ki Shadi, Mitti De Bawe.

Wahb (king of Qedar)

Wahb, rendered Uabu in Assyrian records, was an Arab tribal leader who rebelled against Yauṯaʿ, king of the Qedarite Arabs, during Esarhaddon's reign; Assyrian aid suppressed the revolt.

Sep 23, 2026

Wahb ibn Munabbih

Wahb ibn Munabbih (وهب بن منبه) was a Yemeni scholar and storyteller of the generation after Muhammad's Companions, known for transmitting biblical lore into Islamic tradition.

Wahba's problem

Wahba's problem is the task of finding the rotation that best aligns two sets of vector observations, posed by Grace Wahba in 1965 for satellite attitude estimation.

Wahbi Khazri (وهبي خزري)

Wahbi Khazri (وهبي خزري), born 1991 in Ajaccio, is a retired Tunisian forward; 74 caps, 25 goals, Tunisia's all-time World Cup top scorer with 3 goals, scorer against France at Qatar 2022; later Tunisia chief analyst.

Waḥda, Ḥurriyya, Ishtirākiyya (وحدة، حرية، اشتراكية)

Waḥda, Ḥurriyya, Ishtirākiyya (وحدة، حرية، اشتراكية), "Unity, Freedom, Socialism," is the Ba'ath Party's core slogan, coined by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar in 1940s Damascus, with word-order variants marking rival Nasserist and Libyan slogans.

Wahdat al-wujūd

Wahdat al-wujūd (وحدة الوجود), the oneness of being, is a Sufi metaphysical doctrine associated with Ibn ʿArabī, though he never used the term, holding that only God's being truly exists.

Waheed Alli, Baron Alli

Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and Labour life peer, co-founder of Planet 24 (The Big Breakfast, The Word), ennobled by Tony Blair in 1998 as the youngest and first openly gay member of the Lords, and a major Labour donor central to the 2024 'passes for glasses' controversy.