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Dash, the company name which came from Dave’s nickname in the Air Force—as Dave, just returned from Nepal, tells me—was reinterpreted as an abbreviation for Dave and Shelley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
People joke that the abbreviation Lao PDR means "Lao Please Don't Rush".
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
The term “tradwife” is an abbreviation of “traditional wife” – often portrayed on these platforms as a white, married, stay-at-home mother.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025
LOL is an abbreviation for laugh out loud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
It stood for “IN,” the official post office abbreviation for the Hoosier State.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
It used telegraph lines to report transactions in almost real time, printing them out on rolls of tape in abbreviations that insiders could interpret.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
Castellanos said Quintana’s account would post Instagram stories with “symbols or abbreviations which coincided with intersections allowing for all to respond in a flash mob fashion and overwhelm the location.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
In the experiments, texters who used abbreviations received shorter and fewer responses and were less likely to receive contact information from the other texter.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
Indians are fond of their abbreviations and acronyms and you’re likely to come across a fair few of those in this live page.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
You are probably familiar with the abbreviations BC and AD.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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