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How to use abbreviation in a sentence

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What are the consequences of that abbreviation of this story on the democratic process?
The device of dialogue allows abbreviation of statements without loss of clarity.
They have exploited this radical abbreviation of focal length to develop a prototype of a credit-card-thin camera.
In fact I did not condemn abbreviation, I condemned the near-total exclusion of ideas.
Postmodern designs have hints of pilasters, friezes and capitals, but only in lego-like abbreviation.
This abbreviation stands for DVD rewritable disc and means that it can be recorded and erased just the same as a VHS video.
These typically consist of a two-letter state abbreviation, followed by a three-letter locality and a three-digit fire number.
This is not a legally approved abbreviation, and the story has been corrected to reflect that.
He observes that the twentieth century could be characterized as the century of abbreviation.
There's an abbreviation of the name, a checkbox for genders, another one for classes, and information about how the lexical type inflects.
Such punched stamps are referred to as perfins, an abbreviation for perforated initials.
He has never got round to cutting the umbilical link with his home city, here represented by the slurred abbreviation in the title.
If she intended to be racist then she missed the chance to use this punchier, but less than stylish, abbreviation.
In many instances, there are abbreviations for the hyponym, but no abbreviation for the more general term.
Jan Struther, an abbreviation of her maiden name, was the pen name which she used.
Let's not forget that it was exactly this kind of abbreviation that caused all the trouble in the first place.
Who came up with the hip abbreviation, the slanted letterforms, the marketing strategy?
If searching for a forename below try the abbreviation first, and if not successful use the full forename.
Such a user might find it efficient to be able to refer to formulaic phrases by code or abbreviation without even viewing the display.
No matter where the guy is, the computer should figure out town, state, and abbreviation from the zip code, but that's another matter.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The facilitation and abbreviation of mental labor is at the bottom of all mental progress.
The abbreviation for Massachusetts was then m.s. as is seen by an old dating stamp of that period.
This abbreviation is not used by those who are careful in the choice of words.
He attributed it, doubtless, to his abbreviation of her name, for he smiled grimly.
Dawkins had several styles, and Maverick had one or two, but was pretty certain to use an abbreviation of sculpsit.
To slip-stitch means to take a stitch from the left-hand to the right-hand needle without knitting it, and its abbreviation is sl.
His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to the familiar abbreviation of Neb.
As a survival and abbreviation of this phrase we in England say pound sterling to this day.
It was an abbreviation for rocketeer, a title all of them had once carried.
Stoffles was her name, a familiar abbreviation, and mephistophelian was her nature.
Father Kelly, the priest, had found the name of the Spanish maker on the sword and an abbreviation that stood for the city of Cordova.
Formerly imagined to be an abbreviation of argent, cant term for silver.
The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.
An abbreviation of Dominus, equivalent to the English prefix Reverend.
It is too long to quote, too sublime to be marred by abbreviation.
Sometimes the symbol is an abbreviation of the old Latin name.
Clare Wood, professor of psychology in education at Coventry University, said the results could be put down to the fact that text abbreviation was largely phonetically based.
Once the word root is found, the word is further analyzed to determine whether it is a compound word, combining word, singular, plural, abbreviation or acronym.
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