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Assimi Goïta
Assimi Goïta (born 1983) is Mali's army general and President of the Transition since June 2021, leader of the CNSP junta, author of the August 2020 and May 2021 coups, aligned with Russia's Wagner Group and Africa Corps.
Assimilation (phonology)
Assimilation (phonology): a process making a speech sound more like a neighboring sound, also called feature spreading or coarticulation. Covers progressive, regressive, and coalescent directions; place, manner, and voicing types; gradient versus categorical behavior; and listener-based accounts of sound change.
Assin
Assin (also Asen) is an Akan state and people of Ghana's Central Region, whose traditions trace their movement from the Ashanti Kingdom; it was displaced by Denkyira in the 1690s.
Assistant commandant
Assistant commandant is the entry Group A gazetted officer rank of India's CAPFs (BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, SSB), recruited via the UPSC CAPF exam, commanding a 135-person company at pay Level 10.
Assisted Human Reproduction Act
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act), S.C. 2004, c. 2: Canadian federal statute assented to March 29, 2004, prohibiting human cloning, paid surrogacy, and trade in gametes and embryos, reshaped by the 2010 SCC Reference and 2012 repeals, with Health Canada enforcing safety, consent, and reimbursement regulations.
Assisted suicide
Assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is the practice of helping another person end their own life, usually by providing prescribed medical substances; it differs from euthanasia because patients self-administer.
Assisted suicide in the United States
Assisted suicide, or medical aid in dying (MAID), in the United States: physician-prescribed lethal medication self-administered by terminally ill adults, legal in 13 states plus DC since Illinois joined in 2026, opposed by disability advocates.
Assita Kanko
Assita Kanko is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
Assizes
The Assizes were periodic travelling courts in England and Wales, held in county towns by visiting London judges from Henry II's era (Assize of Clarendon, 1166) until the Courts Act 1971 replaced them with the Crown Court.
Associate degree
Associate degree: a two-year US postsecondary credential, terminal or transfer, averaging about 70 semester hours, offered mainly by community colleges, with earnings premiums of roughly 14 to 45 percent in CTE fields.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines: one of 14 members below the Chief Justice; natural-born Filipino, at least 40, 15 years' experience; appointed by the President from a JBC shortlist; serves until age 70.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: one of the eight non-chief members of the nine-member Court, presidentially nominated and Senate-confirmed with life tenure; 104 have served, salary $306,600 (2026).
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, or ARP Church, is a theologically conservative Presbyterian denomination formed in Philadelphia in 1782, now concentrated in the southeastern United States.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP), founded in 1846 by five New York newspapers, is an American not-for-profit news cooperative supplying text, photo, video, and audio news to member outlets worldwide; distinct from Reuters and AFP as a member-owned cooperative.
Association fallacy
The association fallacy is an informal error in reasoning that transfers a trait from one thing to another through a mere association, as in guilt by association.
Association football during World War II
Association football during World War II: European football 1939-1945, also called wartime football. English league suspended 1939-1946, FIFA continued under Axis interference, Kiev Death Match 1942, game used for morale and propaganda.
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics is an international society for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. It maintains the ACL Anthology, which contains over 131,000 papers.
Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema
The Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (AOMA) was an Islamic reformist organization founded by Abdelhamid Ben Badis in Constantine, Algeria, in 1931, under French colonial rule.
Association of American Medical Colleges
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), founded 1876 in Philadelphia, nonprofit representing 174 US and Canadian medical schools, 400+ teaching hospitals; runs MCAT, AMCAS, ERAS; co-sponsors LCME accreditation; led by David Skorton until 2027.
Association of American Universities
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an invitation-only group of leading research universities in the United States and Canada, founded in 1900 to standardize graduate study.
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is a global professional body for accountants, founded in 1904, which sets and examines the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification for over 266,100 members in 179 countries.
Association of Commonwealth Universities
Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU): global university network founded 1913 in London, Royal Charter 1963, 400+ member universities in 40+ Commonwealth countries, administering Commonwealth scholarships and higher education policy work.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was an American grassroots organization founded in 1970 in Little Rock, Arkansas, that advocated for low- and moderate-income families.
Association of German National Jews
Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews), extreme assimilationist right-conservative German-Jewish organization founded 1921 by Max Naumann, ~3,500 members, anti-Zionist, banned by Nazis 18 November 1935.
Association of Moving Image Archivists
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is an international nonprofit professional association dedicated to the preservation of film, video, and digital moving image media, formalized in 1991 and based in California.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is an American nonprofit, founded in 1967, supporting writers and university creative writing programs through its large annual conference.
Assonance
Assonance (also vowel rhyme, vocalic rhyme): repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words, especially stressed syllables; from Latin assonare. Distinct from rhyme, alliteration, and consonance; foundational to the Chanson de Roland.
Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary, also called the Feast of Assumption, is the Catholic dogma, defined by Pope Pius XII in 1950, that Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven.
Assumption University (Worcester)
Assumption University (Worcester), formerly Assumption College, is a private Catholic liberal arts university in Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption; it became a university in 2020 with five schools.
Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts
The Assur archive of Middle Assyrian texts is a body of cuneiform tablets from Assur, the Assyrian capital in Iraq, excavated chiefly by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft between 1903 and 1914.