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
“We can often abbreviate and accelerate what we can do in terms of training for Ukrainian army soldiers,” he told reporters Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
For the purposes of this chapter, we will abbreviate genes using the first letter of the gene’s corresponding dominant trait.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 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
It cannot be said, that sobriety is apt to shorten one's days, as sickness does; and that the latter abbreviates life, is most certain.
From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Luigi Cornaro
The bond names are abbreviated, and the coupons are also listed in that column.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win the championship series at the end of an abbreviated season due to the coronavirus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Titled "107 Days," it covers her abbreviated campaign against Trump after Biden dropped out.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
When I spoke to Ms. Dhillon in October and put to her an abbreviated version of Mr. Caldwell’s thesis, she confined her answer to her division’s present activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Christianity not only imposed an abbreviated chronology; the liturgy was constructed around an endless cycle, the annual recurrence of the life of Christ.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
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
We did so, and briefly explained our own system of abbreviating.
From Pipefuls by Christopher Morley
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