- present participle of abbreviate.
abbreviating
Example Sentences
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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
But the hastily built websites can be tripped up by someone abbreviating a word or putting an extra space in an address.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020
And apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
But players already are further abbreviating short careers rather than continuing to endure the physical punishment NFL teams put them through.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2017
There were many of his kind so maimed, and the wolfers, abbreviating the term peg-legs, called these three-footed ones "pegs."
From The Yellow Horde by Charles Livingston Bull
