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abbreviate

[uh-bree-vee-eyt] / əˈbri viˌeɪt /




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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

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

“We also need to abbreviate his dialogue a bit so that there are no monologues, etc.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2022

“O for the P,” as Farmer would eventually abbreviate the term, was a simple concept.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

This caution abbreviates my letters; but, in general, you can depend on what I tell you.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

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

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Trading will be abbreviated by a day in the week ahead, 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 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

Then she launched into an abbreviated version of her life story.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has been nicknamed Albo since he was a child in keeping with a time-honored Australian tradition of abbreviating names and often adding “o” at the end.

From Seattle Times Apr. 9, 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 apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”

From Slate Oct. 12, 2019

We would take a step or two, and then pause to look at a portrait, while my energetic host threw out an explanatory phrase whimsically abbreviating the names of the men he liked best.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren




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