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

Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s Twitter biography likewise describes him, abbreviating some of the ensembles he directs, as “Father of Rotterdam Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain Mtl” — and “Future father of the Met.”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

Dinner was served at four o'clock, a light lunch abbreviating the fast for those at home.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward