shorthand
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Then, on Wednesday afternoon, the district notified developers in a letter that it was canceling its “RFQ/P” — shorthand for Request For Qualifications and Proposals — and rejecting all bids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Fast food has increasingly become fashion, entertainment, identity and political shorthand.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
As they craft, artisans chant aloud the design code handwritten on a strip of paper known as talim -- shorthand of ancient symbols for numbers and colours -- knotting the threads string by string.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Several Chinese AI developers are building models with five trillion to 10 trillion parameters, a shorthand figure for a model’s capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Another is full of old datebooks, the appointments filling the days written in some sort of shorthand in Marco’s neat, delicate handwriting.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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When You Reach Me
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