initials

Example Sentences

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The woman requested to be identified by her middle and last initials, B.B., out of concern for her immigration case.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office confirmed the 45-year-old - whom it referred to only by his initials SL - was arrested following an Interpol alert.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Take the 20-year-old plaintiff identified by the initials K.G.M. in the Wednesday case.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The form for the second person on the list bore the initials of a member of her staff, who’d helped the man register — at his naturalization ceremony.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2026

He finds it on the ground beside the desk, and when he attempts to dust it off a bit he can see the initials H.B. engraved on the back.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern