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David-Jeremiah began with the pieces that include the abbreviations, the second of which expresses the same sentiment as the first, but rendered in Dallas slang.

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Hovering your mouse over a particular flag brings up the identifying abbreviation of the metric name and the recorded timing in milliseconds.

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Academic writing is usually jam-packed with sophisticated scientific concepts, but in recent decades studies have also become filled with endless acronyms and abbreviations.

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A 2017 article in the Association for Psychological Science’s Observer, noted that the more abbreviations were explained and spelled out, the more interest readers had in the subject matter.

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It’s a language full of abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms.

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"Empey" is her pet name for him, an abbreviation of "Emperor;" and he likes to hear her say it.

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As the word is now generally used it is an abbreviation of Pishu Huanu—Bird-dung.

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Have we here no specimens of abbreviation; no allusion in the prologue to "omissis qu videbantur superflua?"

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More probably the word is an abbreviation of Italian borghetto diminutive of borgo a “borough.”

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Abbreviation Left hand up, while the R foot is moving and the L hopping.