abbreviate
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When Carl Wilson and I were singing those parts back then, we’d abbreviate things — you can’t do everything you did in the studio with only five of us.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
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
Travelers in the know choose from multiple ways to abbreviate TSA line wait time.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2022
For the purposes of this chapter, we will abbreviate genes using the first letter of the gene’s corresponding dominant trait.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 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
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