abbreviate

"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

The way Ms. Rebet abbreviates the men, especially, is lovely, like an elegant hieratic calligraphy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

The new method abbreviates the time, since an electric current can tally almost simultaneously the data, the tallying of which by hand would be separated by appreciable intervals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

Earlier in an abbreviated trading session on the New York Stock Exchange investors had breathed a sigh of relief as the market’s recent panic seemed to lift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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

Writers acquire the hedge habit to conform to the bureaucratic imperative that’s abbreviated as CYA, which I’ll spell out as Cover Your Anatomy.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

But players already are further abbreviating short careers rather than continuing to endure the physical punishment NFL teams put them through.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2017

“Old Sal”—the Philosophers had taken to abbreviating my pet name this term, I know not on what principle of familiarity—“Old Sal piles it on a bit,” remarked he.

From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed