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

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

Although they are technically abbreviations, sometimes they hardly even hint at the word they are abbreviating.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

Languages have no value in themselves; they exist solely for the purpose of communicating ideas and abbreviating our thought and action processes.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul