- present participle of abbreviate.
abbreviating
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If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
And apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
Although they are technically abbreviations, sometimes they hardly even hint at the word they are abbreviating.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
Page 25: 'abreviating' corrected to 'abbreviating'. "... as emphasizing, by descriptively abbreviating, these two epithets,..."
From Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various
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