abbreviations

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It used telegraph lines to report transactions in almost real time, printing them out on rolls of tape in abbreviations that insiders could interpret.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

Castellanos said Quintana’s account would post Instagram stories with “symbols or abbreviations which coincided with intersections allowing for all to respond in a flash mob fashion and overwhelm the location.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

"While our overall results on age were mixed, it's clear that younger people are not particularly fond of abbreviations, though the strength of this aversion may vary by age," Fang said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Indians are fond of their abbreviations and acronyms and you’re likely to come across a fair few of those in this live page.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

Chemists also used a bewildering variety of symbols and abbreviations, often self-invented.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson