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abbreviate

[uh-bree-vee-eyt] / əˈbri viˌeɪt /




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When Carl Wilson and I were singing those parts back then, we’d abbreviate things — you can’t do everything you did in the studio with only five of us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

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

Travelers in the know choose from multiple ways to abbreviate TSA line wait time.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

We hurry them off the stage, warning them not to “taint” their legacy by deteriorating publicly in front of our pained eyes, and abbreviate what could be some fascinating third acts.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020

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

How can a man be a creator if he deceives, stunts, and abbreviates the humanity that is in him?

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield

Through Wednesday’s abbreviated outing, Snell has a 1.86 ERA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

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

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

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

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

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

As their works are accessible to comparatively few of our readers, we will annex a quotation from several of them, at the same time abbreviating them as much as is consistent with perspicuity.

From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker




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