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EPA en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of eicosapentaenoic acid.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of English pale ale.
    • I’ve noticed that the chief distinguishing factor between American pale ales and their English counterparts is the hop taste — APAs all seem to finish with a metallic, grapefruit, or pine bitterness (it differs depending on who you talk to), while EPAs mostly seem to finish with a leafy, earthy hop profile that’s less explicitly bitter. 2014 February 14, Adam Cowden, “The Man Who Invented Beer: Three Floyds Pride and Joy”, in HEAVE Media:
    • Beers brewed: CB's branded beers include Caged Alpha Monkey, Canandaigua Lake Pale Ale, EPA (English Pale Ale), Double Dark Cream Porter, and many seasonals and oneoff beers. 2014, Lew Bryson, Don Cazentre, New York Breweries, →ISBN:
    • It’s the Black Swan EPA which is the brewery’s best seller and the one most frequently found in local restaurants. 2017 June 30, Wayne Newton, “Canada’s theatre jewel has tasty choices for food and drink to rival Stratford’s onstage offerings”, in London Free Press:
    • We had a bonus taster of an EPA, or English Pale Ale (IPA is Indian Pale Ale), which went by the name Rhythm Stick, and according my notes was delicious, and full of peachy aromas. 2015 April 8, Bianca Coleman, “Craft beers go down with great ease”, in Independent Online:
    • I'm a bit twitchy myself, thirsting for some more Marston's, so we crack some bottles of Marston's EPA (English Pale Ale) a light, citrusy, beer that's very refreshing, although perhaps not best drunk in the freezing dusk wind that's now storming inland. 2017 November 17, Nick Harman, “The Unbeatable Barley of Holkham”, in Foodepedia:
  3. (England, Wales, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of enduring power of attorney.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of economic partnership agreement

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EPAs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

IPA · APA · LPA

Source: en.wiktionary, “EPA” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

EPA en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Environmental Protection Agency.
    • First the U.S. had to “show leadership” by promising to cut emissions, many self-styled climate hawks had argued during the debates over cap and trade and the president’s E.P.A. regulations, because then and only then the world’s developing economies would be pressured/shamed/persuaded into following along. 2014 November 13, Ross Douthat, “A Test For Climate Hawks”, in The New York Times:
    • The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health. 2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica:
    • Both the EPA and the HDOH received and submitted comments on the report without any mention of a need for permitting discharges from the wells. 2020 April 23, “COUNTY OF MAUI, HAWAII v. HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States, page 36:

Synonyms

USEPA