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abbreviate

[uh-bree-vee-ayt] / əˈbri viˌeɪt /




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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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022

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

“O for the P,” as Farmer would eventually abbreviate the term, was a simple concept.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

By contrast, on the studio recording of “A Love Supreme,” Coltrane simplifies, clarifies, abbreviates, and moderates his solos.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2015

Matthew again abbreviates, omitting many of the most striking and solemn features of the narrative as given by the other two evangelists, and he also diverges from them in mentioning two demoniacs instead of one.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

The bond names are abbreviated, and the coupons are also listed in that column.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Titled "107 Days," it covers her abbreviated campaign against Trump after Biden dropped out.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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

The initial tournament in Serena’s comeback was abbreviated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

I launched into my abbreviated life story where I highlighted my academic achievements and my success in fencing.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

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

They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021

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

In 1788 the Synod of New York and Philadelphia adopted among other symbols the Westminster Directory for the Worship of God, abbreviating it somewhat, but changing its instructions in no material respect.

From Presbyterian Worship Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston


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