abbreviation

Dash, the company name which came from Dave’s nickname in the Air Force—as Dave, just returned from Nepal, tells me—was reinterpreted as an abbreviation for Dave and Shelley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Jackson’s music videos — “short films,” he preferred to call them — did that too, in abbreviation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

People joke that the abbreviation Lao PDR means "Lao Please Don't Rush".

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

The term “tradwife” is an abbreviation of “traditional wife” – often portrayed on these platforms as a white, married, stay-at-home mother.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025

As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a “subprime loan,” but the bond market didn’t want to be clear.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

It used telegraph lines to report transactions in almost real time, printing them out on rolls of tape in abbreviations that insiders could interpret.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

Castellanos said Quintana’s account would post Instagram stories with “symbols or abbreviations which coincided with intersections allowing for all to respond in a flash mob fashion and overwhelm the location.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

Across the experiments, individuals who used texting abbreviations were perceived as more insincere and were less likely to receive replies because they were seen as exerting less effort in text conversations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

Indians are fond of their abbreviations and acronyms and you’re likely to come across a fair few of those in this live page.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024

There’s one that everyone is at least vaguely aware of: the use of jargon, abbreviations, and technical vocabulary.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker