abbreviating

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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

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 apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2019

“Time could be better spent fixing problems that users have reported across the site, not abbreviating sub counts, which can lead to lost potential business opportunities,” the user wrote.

From New York Times • May 31, 2019

We would take a step or two, and then pause to look at a portrait, while my energetic host threw out an explanatory phrase whimsically abbreviating the names of the men he liked best.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur