- present participle of abbreviate.
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
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
Put in necessary commas in abbreviating railroad names: C., M. & St. P. Ry.
From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde
