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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

Some officials have been talking about nonfunctional turf so much that they abbreviate it with the acronym “NFT.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

“We can often abbreviate and accelerate what we can do in terms of training for Ukrainian army soldiers,” he told reporters Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

“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

A long day's journey lies between Garoet and Djokjacarta, which popular parlance abbreviates into Djokja.

From Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings

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 by a day in the week ahead, with markets closed on Friday, June 3, in observance of the Fourth of July holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 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

Finally, when there are only twenty minutes left, he makes us number off one-two and we break up into teams for an abbreviated game, thanks to what he calls “unfortunate events.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

And then the boss said: “Guys, I hate to be a noodge, but could we get back to abbreviating the states? We still have 49 left.”

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019

“Time could be better spent fixing problems that users have reported across the site, not abbreviating sub counts, which can lead to lost potential business opportunities,” the user wrote.

From New York Times ● May 31, 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