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

“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

By contrast, on the studio recording of “A Love Supreme,” Coltrane simplifies, clarifies, abbreviates, and moderates his solos.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2015

Frantically he bows; arises; makes the signs of the cross, goes through the genuflexions, abbreviates all his gestures, the sooner to be finished.

From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

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 lost to Trump following an abbreviated campaign.

From Barron's ● May 27, 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

I was glad to get past the abbreviated reference to slavery.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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

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

We Germans have borrowed our word "cakes" from the phraseology of the Jewish Church, abbreviating "oblaten," wafers, into "fladen," or cakes.

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Lenker, John Nicholas