abbreviate

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

Meant to show strength and independence, Alzona’s sculptures abbreviate women’s bodies to such active parts as a torso or a pair of ankles and feet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 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

If you read her diary carefully, you'll see that she very frequently abbreviates her words, not only Tues., for Tuesday, and Dec., for December, but other words, just as the whim took her.

From The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells

This spring, county officials proposed adopting an abbreviated form of the review.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

When I spoke to Ms. Dhillon in October and put to her an abbreviated version of Mr. Caldwell’s thesis, she confined her answer to her division’s present activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

With each foreign athlete’s victory, an abbreviated version of his or her national anthem was played.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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 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

Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s Twitter biography likewise describes him, abbreviating some of the ensembles he directs, as “Father of Rotterdam Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain Mtl” — and “Future father of the Met.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018

The schools, as always, confined their exertions to collecting, comparing, abbreviating, systematising, and commenting.

From Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam by H. E. E. (Herbert Edward Elton) Hayes