abbreviate

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

Already, public health agencies, researchers and nonprofit organizations around the world have taken it upon themselves to abbreviate or shorten the controversial name.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

Meant to show strength and independence, Alzona’s sculptures abbreviate women’s bodies to such active parts as a torso or a pair of ankles and feet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

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

A long day's journey lies between Garoet and Djokjacarta, which popular parlance abbreviates into Djokja.

From Through the Malay Archipelago by Richings, Emily

Titled "107 Days," it covers her abbreviated campaign against Trump after Biden dropped out.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Trading will be abbreviated in the coming week, with markets closed on Friday, June 3, in observance of the Fourth of July holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 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 eventually went to an abbreviated culinary school and managed restaurants for Danny Meyer, a renowned restaurateur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Writers acquire the hedge habit to conform to the bureaucratic imperative that’s abbreviated as CYA, which I’ll spell out as Cover Your Anatomy.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

But the hastily built websites can be tripped up by someone abbreviating a word or putting an extra space in an address.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020

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

But players already are further abbreviating short careers rather than continuing to endure the physical punishment NFL teams put them through.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2017

Our fellows have rather a low way of abbreviating it and bringing it down to 'Planty.'

From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe