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

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

Although they are technically abbreviations, sometimes they hardly even hint at the word they are abbreviating.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

DEFinitions: Report from Week 1238 In Week 1238 we continued three-letter abbreviating through the alphabet with some DEF, FED, EDF, etc., phrases.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2017

The need of abbreviating the recapitulation of this, however, sooner or later develops the school in the pedagogic sense, and its many achievements, its many failures in accomplishing this, might here be more fully analysed.

From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Geddes, Patrick