a.o.
Adverb
Meaning
a.o. (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of ao
Examples
A.O. Scott and Wesley Morris of the New York Times discuss their top 10 film actors of the year, from Daniel Kaluuya and Tiffany Haddish to Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan.
Called “essential, like water or air,” by A.O. Scott of Between the World and Me bestseller and winner of the National Book Award and the NAACP Image Award.
Grainger was a tooling engineer at A.O. Smith (Tower Auto) in Milan.
Mr. Jenkins worked at a packinghouse and at A.O. Smith foundry in Milwaukee.
“The political intelligence and matter-of-fact feminism that emerge in this portrait are among its most intriguing aspects,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
Instead, our chief critics, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, have selected some of their favorites, and a few that don’t shine quite so brightly.