abbreviation

“Even minor changes, such as to a middle name or abbreviation, can cause processing issues,” says Elizabeth Young, director of tax practice at the American Institute of CPAs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

CMAT's stage name is pretty simple when you think about it, it's simply an abbreviation of her name - Clara Mary-Alice Thompson.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

Each abbreviation is surrounded by many inches of white space.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

The new tool is called the Burnout Assessment Tool, or BAT among researchers who have a penchant for amusing abbreviations.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

In addition to “H of G,” “ID,” “WL,” and “O for the P,” Farmer used scores of other abbreviations and slang in his and emails.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French