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Brosseau wants to die by medically assisted dying, also known as euthanasia and in Canada, under the acronym MAID.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Plane tracking using satellites is known by its industry acronym, ADS-B.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Josh Brown, the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, uses the acronym “HALO” to refer to such stocks — “heavy assets, low obsolescence.”
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
The Scientific Panel for the Global Energy Transition was amusingly dubbed the "Spaghetti" group because of its acronym -- SPGET.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
The cottage staff told all the TPRed kids—the obnoxious acronym had somehow become an adjective—that we were going to have our photos taken by a professional photographer for an adoption catalog.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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