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

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

“Time could be better spent fixing problems that users have reported across the site, not abbreviating sub counts, which can lead to lost potential business opportunities,” the user wrote.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

DEFinitions: Report from Week 1238 In Week 1238 we continued three-letter abbreviating through the alphabet with some DEF, FED, EDF, etc., phrases.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2017

The Dorians were not so much to be blamed for their abbreviating, as the other Greeks were for their unnecessary terminations, and inflexions.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob