abbreviate
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"These are minutes drawn up by notaries who abbreviate their decisions. The script is highly administrative, very pragmatic... with rather technical vocabulary," said historian Julie Claustre, who leads the e-NDP project.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The strands consist of almost endless rows of four small molecules that we abbreviate to A, C, G and T.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 9, 2024
Some officials have been talking about nonfunctional turf so much that they abbreviate it with the acronym “NFT.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Travelers in the know choose from multiple ways to abbreviate TSA line wait time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
You can abbreviate ‘A Dios Gracias' by writing ‘A.D.G.’ if you want to.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Supporters - who dislike the phrase as it wrongly abbreviates the county rather than the city - quickly took to social media to voice their disgruntlement after it aired on Monday evening.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
But this make-ahead recipe abbreviates the waiting time too and offers flavorful, tender potatoes and crunchy bits of onion and celery, accented by a creamy dressing.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2021
Raine radically abbreviates the story of the young woman’s tasks, only mentioning the last and hardest, to obtain a vessel of black, icy, Styx-infected water.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2019
The way Ms. Rebet abbreviates the men, especially, is lovely, like an elegant hieratic calligraphy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
How can a man be a creator if he deceives, stunts, and abbreviates the humanity that is in him?
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
This spring, county officials proposed adopting an abbreviated form of the review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
The bond names are abbreviated, and the coupons are also listed in that column.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, often abbreviated as BDNF, is a protein involved in the growth, maintenance, and survival of nerve cells and is frequently studied in mental health research.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
She had worked all her life; even as a small child, her school year was abbreviated so she could chop cotton for a few months on the plantation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“So I decided to do that with the Slater Loan Company. This is how it’s spelled on the document, ‘Company’ abbreviated as ‘Co.’
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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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
As other art historians have suggested, it may be impossible to think of their style as anything but collaborative, especially since Michel was an illustrator, adept at abbreviating forms.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
Though political Washington, D.C., adores acronyms, I ask The Post’s editors to refrain from abbreviating the refuge’s evocative name.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
And then the boss said: “Guys, I hate to be a noodge, but could we get back to abbreviating the states? We still have 49 left.”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
I had, in fact, a second reason for abbreviating this letter and sealing it in a hurry.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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