It found that abbreviations are used much less than before.
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Also found were crosses, Christograms, and abbreviations of Jesus's name.
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In this puzzle, they are in the category of ABBReviations.
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No abbreviations, capitalized words or words with punctuation are allowed.
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Before then, top-level domains were regulated to abbreviations, such as .
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Like the military, the M.T.A. is fond of abbreviations and acronyms.
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You may also see the abbreviations FSA or HSA on your list.
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I'm also becoming much more averse to partials and abbreviations in general.
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" So far, your two singles have internet abbreviations: "STFU & Hold Me" and "H8U.
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Some names are abbreviations (at times rather tortured manipulations of words and letters).
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The stylebook largely consists of rules dictating renderings, syntax and abbreviations — Gov. vs.
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They are often hundreds of pages long, filled with medical codes and abbreviations.
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But there are quite a few abbreviations here, so watch out for those.
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The glossary of appropriate terminology and inclusive acronyms and abbreviations is constantly evolving.
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Here's the problem: The abbreviations Gibbs is proposing don't render themselves into readable Latin.
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" But things quickly went south when host Stephen Colbert asked about "speaking in abbreviations.
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In pre-emoji times, abbreviations like "jk" or "/s" served roughly the same purpose.
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The first parts of the starred theme entries are the abbreviations, starting with SUN.
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Other colleges used abbreviations of the sometimes cumbersome titles of federal student loan programs.
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The new additions cannot include abbreviations, capitalized words or words containing hyphens or apostrophes.
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Hashtags help, but they often rely on abbreviations and aren't always clear to non-participants.
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Here, we break down 10 of the major abbreviations you'll encounter when filing your taxes.
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Even when consumers do locate the lists, they might be stymied by seemingly incomprehensible abbreviations.
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And you can break up MISC to get the abbreviations for MIchigan and South Carolina.
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Another loosened-up cryptic convention is the use of abbreviations and symbols, like Roman numerals.
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Here, the country whose name consists of three consecutive Postal Service state abbreviations is MALAWI.
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Worse than the text abbreviations was the level of informality, with no address or signoff.
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Carr could deduce that because the words didn't line up perfectly with the individual abbreviations.
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If you use scientific language or abbreviations, be sure to define them for your audience.
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You might give more weight to a grid unsullied by partials or an abundance of abbreviations.
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We were charged per character and sending speed was slow, so arcane abbreviations were often used.
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Your job is to parse those abbreviations and words so they make an entirely different word.
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Although they are technically abbreviations, sometimes they hardly even hint at the word they are abbreviating.
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If you are paying a company, be sure to write out the formal company name without abbreviations.
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It is not easy to read because of all the redactions, the use of jargon and abbreviations.
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Constructors try their best to make these shorter crossings legitimate words, without too many partials or abbreviations.
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By the time I had done a pretty exhaustive search of abbreviations, I did not have quite enough possible theme entries to make a whole Sunday puzzle because there were not enough abbreviations that were spelled out letter by letter (like how ACT is actually pronounced "ay-see-tea").
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Instead, it seems the change simply made it easier for users to avoid using a litany of abbreviations.
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The more abbreviations and details after the brand name, the better you can expect the model to be.
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I also personally avoid partial phrases and most abbreviations, especially all the midcentury government programs from history class.
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It was supposed to be easy but I could see that it wasn't: uncrossed letters, unheard-of abbreviations.
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Some of the slick incorporation of abbreviations — WW II EPICS, NAOH, OD ON — reminded me of a cryptic.
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It was he who came up with the idea of the abbreviations that now occupy the periodic table's rectangles.
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Shorthand, abbreviations and online slang should be avoided if possible, and used only in the most informal of conversations.
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Omitted are abbreviations for time zones, countries and states, and naturally capitalized text (logos, news outlets, AM/PM, etc.).
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But while there are many resources listing common slang and abbreviations, this will not cover the many extemporized variations.
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Campus movements admittedly make for an easy target, with their self-serious posturing and ever-lengthening strings of abbreviations.
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Each of those two-letter rebuses are state abbreviations, and each pair is contiguous, separated by a STATE LINE.
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We have a set of 10 items in our theme, all of which contain their own periodic table abbreviations.
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This point would particularly hit two of President Barack Obama's executive actions, known by their abbreviations: DACA and DAPA.
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I was studying the abbreviations for days and I thought, 'I'm not going to do this because this is ridiculous.
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Mr. Woolf takes the 236 states that have two-letter abbreviations and combines them in pairs to make other words.
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But the documents are often laced with military jargon and abbreviations that can be tough for a layman to decipher.
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I argued that Twitter would have better conversations and fewer ugly abbreviations if it doubled the limit to 280 characters.
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He peppers his speech with relevant abbreviations: "reg," meaning registration; "last four," meaning the final digits of a Social Security number.
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I didn't want to waste the few spelled-out abbreviations I had found, though, and that's where today's puzzle comes from.
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It was the first time I'd seen an Army order, complete with a confusing series of coded numbers and mysterious abbreviations.
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Tippett's meaning seems clear despite 18th century phrasing and abbreviations, not to mention capitalization that looks erratic to 20th century eyes.
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You can type in the ticker abbreviations for the stocks or choose them from the list of major companies on screen.
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Brian MacDonald makes his New York Times debut today with a puzzle that relies on your knowledge of state postal abbreviations.
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I've seen other crosswords that feature state abbreviations in various ways, but couldn't recall one that involved reading the letters individually.
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They're abbreviations for mental health issues and eating disorders used by teenagers looking to band together through personal stories on Instagram.
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Well, I've already told you how I feel about the -ASE's and WHAT A's and long or ugly abbreviations (a four-letter abbreviation would have to be as common as HTTP for me to feel comfortable using it, and plural abbreviations are generally extremely inelegant to me unless they're three letters at most and extremely common).
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In the early days of social media, the abbreviations "IMO" and "IMHO" ("in my opinion" and "in my humble opinion") were common.
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To help you navigate your tax forms, here are definitions of common abbreviations you may encounter while doing your taxes this year.
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The name GALA fused the abbreviations for Georgia and Los Angeles, but eventually the committee absorbed dozens of artists around the country.
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This nearly 20-hour training breaks down all these abbreviations and concepts into simple, easy-to-digest modules made just for beginners.
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They also check for illegal stems, similarity to the names of discontinued products, and common medical or coined abbreviations tucked within the name.
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Phinney also noticed a small telltale: the use and misuse of the ordinal abbreviations "th" (as in 111th) and "st" (as in 1st).
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Peter Wentz calls this one "Mis-Unabbreviated," and he uses abbreviations for all his theme words and a bunch of other places too.
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In the 1987 film "Good Morning, Vietnam," the late Robin Williams butts heads with a grouchy lieutenant over his irritating knack for abbreviations.
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It also added a number of abbreviations including FOMO, a buzzword associated with the startup community that stands for fear of missing out.
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Most state abbreviations use fairly common letters, so stacking is not an impossible feat, but it lends a certain elegance to the theme.
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Watch for abbreviations like "L" or "LN" or terse terms such as "federal Stafford" that do not obviously indicate which parts are loans.
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The thread titles can be jargon-filled and intimidating at first glance, as they are comprised of short codes for airports and mysterious abbreviations.
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Search is also getting smarter: Hulu says it'll now respond better to common misspellings or abbreviations (like "HIMYM" for How I Met Your Mother).
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We can tell that they're new to AO83 because they tag with every variation of a concept—abbreviations, different word order, all of it.
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For example, the use of abbreviations like "gr8" is down by 36%, use of "b54″ is down by 13%," and "sry" has dropped 5%.
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I would have liked to have seen fewer abbreviations and initialisms, but that will come as Mr. Sewell gains more experience filling his grids.
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My original had SSNS at 19-Across, and I know better than that now: don't pluralize abbreviations if you can at all avoid it!
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His characters frequently speak in abbreviations like "ufomg" and "jfc," but this depiction of an internet-driven culture is not limited to millennial slang.
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Line-standing companies tend to go by abbreviations (CVK, QMS, CSC, JEH), which makes them sound at least as obscure as most federal agencies.
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The "African nation whose name consists of three U.S. state postal abbreviations" is MALAWI (MA for Massachusetts, LA for Louisiana and WI for Wisconsin).
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This "Daily run, for short?" is not exercise but a run of letters that are abbreviations for the days of the week: MTWTF. 54D.
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That knot of abbreviations means the fund invests in large- and mid-cap companies outside the United States in both developed and emerging markets.
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The Chicago Manual of Style explains: Capital letters used as words, numerals used as nouns, and abbreviations usually form the plural by adding s.
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The iPhone offers a super-cool "Text Replacement" feature that can switch out quick-to-type abbreviations with full words, entire sentences or even emoticons.
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Even if it looks like a bewildering mess of numbers, codes and abbreviations, there's a good reason to learn how to make sense of it.
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And hand-in-hand with the online wedding world seem to go discussions of trying to conceive (or TTC — that's right, the abbreviations never end).
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It feels like it's been around forever, but it actually dates back to an obscure language fad in the 1830s where people facetiously misspelled abbreviations.
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As such, the final third of the book devolves somewhat into a morass of abbreviations, reports from conferences, and policy discussions folded into canned dialogue.
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In "Yo x Ti, Tu x Mí," or "Me 4 U, U 4 Me," the lyrics allude to abbreviations frequently used on Twitter and WhatsApp.
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There were a ton of small words and abbreviations today, as is often the case when a constructor uses a lot of long theme entries.
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And, in the 1800s, the telegraph inspired fears that the use of abbreviations to reduce the costs of messages would ruin the nuance of language.
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She and I have corresponded by e-mail (largely about chocolate), and the messages from her phone are filled with emoticons and LOL-like abbreviations.
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"Who needs military advice or intell to make policy on ISIL, Syria, Afghanistan, DPRK," she said, using abbreviations for the Islamic State and North Korea.
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Designing the theme entries this way probably caused me to have a few more abbreviations than I would have liked, which may displease some solvers.
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There's a decline of abbreviations like "gr8" (-36%), "b4" (-13%), and "sry" (-5%) in favor of the full words — "great" (+32%), "before" (+70%), and "sorry" (+31%).
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Here are some suggestions for what it should include: Patients can't detect and dispute improper charges if their bills involve dozens of pages of medical abbreviations.
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My greatest fear is that someone was going to look at that texting dialogue and say oh, this is so washed, because it doesn't use abbreviations.
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For the non-technical reader, getting through each article could be a challenge, with all the new terminology and abbreviations that were used by the industry.
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The many acronyms and abbreviations used online and in messaging have alarmed parents who can't interpret them and educators who think they are contaminating standard English.
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At that point the tweets being served by the API to third-party clients and integrated services aren't even really tweets anymore—they're self-referential abbreviations.
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According to Grover Hudson, an emeritus linguistics professor at Michigan State University, initialisms — which do not read as words — are easier to digest for shorter abbreviations.
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If I were constructing this today, I'd work on cleaning up the corners — there are a few too many abbreviations and initialisms for my current taste.
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I was also a bit confused by the circled first letter A, because I thought at first that it was part of the abbreviations at 7D.
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All the abbreviations made me wonder what was going on before I figured out the schtick, but it was cool to see all the I's emerge.
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We use abbreviations and work lingo so readily with colleagues that we forget other people in an email chain may have no idea what we're talking about.
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And it must have stuck, because two years later it emerged on a database of internet jargon along with many other abbreviations that have since died off.
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Twitter's next point will make grammar purists happy: it says it's seeing a decline in the use of abbreviations like "gr8" (-36%), "b4" (-13%) and "sry" (-5%).
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It was he who combined those abbreviations with numbers, indicating the proportions involved, to make formulae for chemical compounds: H2O (water), H2SO4 (sulphuric acid), NaCl (table salt).
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If you look closely at these wall and console panels—which are copied off the originals—you can see abbreviations paying tribute to cast and crew members.
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One of the less amusing parts of doing your taxes is getting through the alphabet soup it presents: AGI, EIN, EIC — what do all those abbreviations mean?
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Let's be clear: There are some terms that everyone in the workplace uses to simplify things—like if you refer to certain meetings or tasks with abbreviations.
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Ms. Shavitz obtained her apartment rental history from the state at the request of The Times, but she could not translate the soup of numbers and abbreviations.
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We communicate in uppercase abbreviations (LOL, ICYMI, TTYL) and splenetic bursts, with such an epidemic of exclamation points that each has no more drama than a comma.
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A month later, on March 19, the hospital finally sent a list of charges, using medical abbreviations and terminology but not revealing the all-important alphanumeric codes.
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Smarter Living: Smartphones tend to occupy hours, but there are ways to give your fingers a break, such as setting up text abbreviations to eliminate repetitive typing.
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Most slang users, though, only employ exotic terms and abbreviations sparingly and grasp what linguists call the skill of "appropriacy", using the right language in the right context.
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Pediatric medicines generally rely on liquid formulations, and parents have to decipher a sometimes bewildering assortment of instructions in different units with varying abbreviations — milliliters, mL, teaspoon, tsp.
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If you see any of these abbreviations listed on the label of your frozen shrimp or at your fish market, you can go ahead and buy with confidence.
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A clean fill in which abbreviations, partials, obscurities, split entries and crosswordese are kept to a minimum, and without too many short words, to avoid frustrating solvers. 3.
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It's a pretty short list of states whose abbreviations can be used in this way, but it was not too hard to come up with possible theme entries.
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AI is smart enough to recognize the search term and any abbreviations, like GlcN, and liberally interprets evidentiary sentences so that it errs on the side of inclusion.
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The intelligence reports on which the government built its case were often in shorthand and filled with abbreviations, and a District Court judge found them to be unreliable.
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And people do that with different forms of so-called nonstandard written language, like lowercase letters, removing punctuation, using slang, using abbreviations and emoji, and all kinds of things.
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"There's such a language within a language for the queer community; there's so many abbreviations, there's all these different ways to describe yourself, and it's so beautiful," says Rakowski.
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But this boiled-down process is intended to address the most important questions you will face as you compare any array of plans with metallic names or obtuse abbreviations.
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Just how painstaking that work was is evident from Anne Bell's preface to the first volume, where she wrote of untangling the quirks of Woolf's dates, abbreviations and more.
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He tried newspaper personals, which requires making abbreviations to fit into two-inch boxes, and video dating where one would watch VHS videos of people's profiles and contact them.
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Beyond that, I have what I consider to be a fairly mainstream aversion to entries like unfamiliar abbreviations, partials, combining forms, Roman numerals, obscurities and less familiar foreign words.
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That's just kidding, for those not up on their texting abbreviations, which would probably include anyone with a remote interest in seeing this comedy-drama about infidelity and its consequences.
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It's a quick way to ascertain your spending and see if you need to make any changes (no more digging through credit card billing statements trying to decipher weird abbreviations).
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Here are some common abbreviations: BBS be back soon CM call me LOL laughing out loud PSOS parents standing over shoulder PU that stinks SLAP sounds like a plan W?
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It refers to Love-Robinson as "Dr." and places abbreviations after his name, including Ph.D. and HHP-C, which is used for those involved in home health and personal care.
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Let's hear from Mr. Woolf: I loved the idea of making a puzzle where all of the four letter words were the combination of two two-letter U.S. state abbreviations.
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U.S. Soccer argued "the job of MNT player carries more responsibility within U.S. Soccer than the job of WNT player," using the abbreviations for the men's and women's national teams.
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If you have a tendency to repeat typos in certain words or want to expand abbreviations into full phrases, tap Text Replacement to set up automatic conversions as you type.
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Sensible: Ms. Lampe has recalibrated the show as it migrated from the Pompidou's unadorned spaces to the Jewish Museum's Beaux-Arts mansion, and the elegant hang justifies a few abbreviations.
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It's a language rich in abbreviations: FMIL for "future mother-in-law," PPD for "Pretty Princess Day," and FI for "Future Intended" (the strangest way to say "fiancé" I've ever heard).
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For me, that usually turns into the regrettable crossword version of "hold my beer and watch this": four killer seed entries, surrounded by 20 medical abbreviations and three Peruvian tree frogs.
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Maybe you don't have faith in your knowledge of Italian numerical abbreviations of the number six, but that's what I'm here for, so I'll tell you that the answer is SESTO.
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There are a few more abbreviations than I would normally use, but I much prefer them to egregious obscurities, and feel they are more than offset by the good stuff here.
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The words are then culled according to basic criteria (no proper nouns, suffixes, prefixes, slurs, or abbreviations) and evaluated based on their general usage and whether they can enrich the game.
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"When I talk about this to my partner or other people, I sound like I'm in a cult or something because I'm using so many abbreviations," a full-timer in Florida said.
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The term is one of the many expressions that his staff refers to as "Carl Barneyisms," the abbreviations, aphorisms, quotations and guidelines that pepper the boss's daily conversation and fill employee binders.
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But the other rules of this theme are broken here, and it's actually pretty hard not to use any of the 50 two-letter state abbreviations in nonthemed answers in a puzzle.
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Hanging above us to the left of the door, a docket sheet is posted, listing the A numbers of the day's respondents, accompanied by abbreviations: HN, HN, ES, HN, BF, VN. Honduras. Honduras.
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But what is popping up on medical center websites is a dog's breakfast of medical codes, abbreviations and dollar signs -- in little discernible order -- that may initially serve to confuse more than illuminate.
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The clues included a Waltons actor who had been dead for 40 years; inelegant acronyms or abbreviations showed up as answers 11 times, including the nearly unforgivable double abbreviation MTST (the clue: "____ Helens").
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From the preponderance of proper names in the upper left, the INs pileup in the lower left, and a couple more abbreviations than I normally like to use, something feels a bit off.
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Food abbreviations are also abundant -- "marg" for margarita, "guac" for guacamole and "avo" for avocado won't help much in Scrabble, but they will make it easier to write a grammatically correct grocery list.
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" Q's posts are often so full of abbreviations, military jargon, and nonsensical catchphrases that they are basically incomprehensible, so with each new message QAnon followers storm the web to figure out the "true meaning.
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I've asked it many times to many people with many more abbreviations after their names than I have—some of whom, like Jakob Vingren, PhD, CSCS, FACSM, have devoted their careers to answering it.
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The third envelope included two sets of code sheets: one that contained a list of ciphers, and another that listed dozens of words along with their encoded abbreviations, a system known as brevity codes.
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Myra Carter was her real name — "Who would ever change her name to something as dull as that?" she said — but she adopted the middle initials A.Y., which, she explained, were not abbreviations for anything.
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Gibbs, a historical researcher and television writer, argues that the apparent code in the Voynich manuscript is actually a series of Latin abbreviations, with each character standing for an abbreviated word rather than a letter.
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"The management boards of RZB and RBI would like to advise that the merger evaluation is now in its final stages," the banks said in a statement on Wednesday, using abbreviations of their full names.
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Mr. Ross's Friday puzzle gave me some resistance as a Friday puzzle should, but I ran into a few speed bumps in the form of partials and abbreviations, like A DOSE, ONE B and HGT.
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The sender had evidently put this codebook together by first printing out the typed letter in plaintext, then cutting out individual words and pasting them alongside abbreviations that he'd printed out separately on other sheets.
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" And he is equally memorable on up-to-the-minute concerns like online communication — on, for instance, the "symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay.
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In August Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest consumer-goods firms, applied to America's federal patent office to trademark several millennial-friendly abbreviations including LOL, NBD, WTF and FML for use in its marketing campaigns.
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While using abbreviations and slang to flirt with our crushes may have been the norm in the days of MSN messenger and Nokia 3310s — "bbz", "luv u", "m8" — it seems we've become a little more discerning.
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While other algorithms that try to do the same thing have been stymied by doctors' abbreviations, Amazon claims to have trained its system to recognize the idiosyncrasies in how doctors take notes, sources told the WSJ.
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Either way, watch your timing or you could end up like this: All in all, a nice midweek outing, with a bit more gluey fill than I like (ENSE, ADZE, DDE, TNUT, ONER, lots of abbreviations).
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Obviously, the mantra that you should use different passwords everywhere (use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass; or use a consistent system involving names or abbreviations and numbers that you can remember) is one to obey.
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The shorter brand names might appeal to a younger generation that has brought texting abbreviations like "LOL" (laugh out loud) and "OMG" (oh my God) into the mainstream, but many longtime brand loyalists opposed the identity shifts.
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"A range of measurement units (eg, milliliter, teaspoon, tablespoon), along with their associated abbreviations, are used as part of instructions on labels and dosing tools, contributing to confusion and multifold errors," wrote Yin and her co-authors.
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Finally, Hulu says it's working on a better search experience that will be more useful when you typo or misspell things, or if you use common abbreviations — like HIMYM for "How I Met Your Mother," for example.
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Twitter limits posts to 140 characters, and most tweets are produced and consumed quickly on mobile phones, encouraging abbreviations, acronyms, "textese" (LOL, OMG, etc.) and other linguistic shortcuts, not to mention both human-caused and autocorrected typos.
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Now with our things, and their stories, we can leverage Thing Association Groups (or TAGs—because you can never have enough of abbreviations in your pile of acronyms) to reduce the aforementioned language barrier between people and technology.
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It's actually a bit trickier than that: You not only have to know the three abbreviations, but you will have to figure out that you need to pronounce each letter separately to make sense of the theme phrase.
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Experts have dispelled the popular notion that it came from the phrases "Fornication Under Consent of the King" or "Booked For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," because pronouncing abbreviations as words was a phenomenon that only emerged in the 20th century.
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A large clock hangs over a wooden concierge desk, while a pair of monitors advertises "departure times" for the location's trio of immersive experiences, using three-letter abbreviations that echo an airport more than a movie theater or arcade.
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Mr. Collins, who is a math teacher by trade (you saw that coming, didn't you?), offers us a set of theme entries that contain the abbreviations for trigonometry functions, like SINe, COSine and TANgent in the shaded/circled squares.
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"The general tendency which social media users have been shown to manifest is a high frequency of shortenings and abbreviations," she said in an email, though she hesitated to speculate on how this tendency might apply to specific names.
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It is not a polished work; it reads like a pamphlet for political insiders, rushed into publication by someone with no time to check punctuation or spell out abbreviations or delve into the historical background of the cases discussed.
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Just look at Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the world's largest consumer-goods firms, which this year applied to America's federal patent office to trademark LOL, NBD, WTF and FML, abbreviations commonly used in text messages and social media.
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Ms. Miller went a further step by creating an application packet for prospective writers to show them what their submissions should look like — what formatting, margins, abbreviations and lingo to use — so that no one would be penalized for inexperience.
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"Back in the '90s, people thought of email as a shorthand ability to communicate with each other — abbreviations or typos didn't matter — and if you wanted real communication you had to send a letter or make a phone call," North says.
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I liked LATE PASS, RED EYE and the romantic ONLY ONCE, but we've also got the partial AIN'T I (although it was amusing to see it clued with reference to Bugs Bunny), ICER, MISUSERS, EVO, TCU, STD and other abbreviations.
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He's got a devoted following, a winning smile, a corkscrew imagination; in 2016, when he did a six-minute bit on "Conan" about how the states got their two-letter abbreviations, it became a viral sensation, pure catnip for nerds.
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In fact, the rules explicitly allow users to post 23D renderings of celebrities as long as they don't include real photos or use their real names in the post: "Abbreviations, nicknames and different names are perfectly fine," the rules state.
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The difference between that version and Weill's original orchestration is apparent from the opening bars: Mr. Bowen erroneously added a harp and clarinet but lost the double bass, while misinterpreting Weill's abbreviations for "piano," splitting the part between piano and clarinet.
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Here's where I got confused, and this must be where I mercifully passed out in my high school class: The theme entries in the lower half of Mr. Collins's grid contain the abbreviations for COTangent, SECant and CSC (or cosecant).
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They're members of a message board for the newly pregnant, and their dialogue will be familiar to anyone who has ever late-night stumbled onto a BabyCenter site — and then late-night stumbled away, unsettled by the mushy abbreviations and emojis.
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The franchise's post-trade tailspin helps explain why Run TMC — one of the most beloved abbreviations in league history — has been so romanticized over the years by basketball fans, who wonder what could have been had the group stayed intact.
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Somewhere in this apartment, hidden among the collected detritus of a half-dozen moves across ten years (a fossil record of phone chargers, power strips, and old utility bills), there lurks a massive orange spiral notebook filled with cryptic names, numbers, and abbreviations.
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At first, I snickered at posts with titles like "Too Many BMs?" and "Show Me Your STDs," but eventually, even these abbreviations just became a part of the fabric of this world, as I went from a skeptical observer to a happy participant.
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In each case, the category contains other members besides the ones that are composed of a single letter, and the letters are the members of the category themselves rather than being abbreviations, unlike something such as L M S for SHIRT SIZES.
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In it, U.S. Soccer argued "the job of MNT player carries more responsibility within U.S. Soccer than the job of WNT player," using the abbreviations for the men's and women's national teams, in regards to a claim under the equal pay act.
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What you need to do is deduce the U.S. state (or states) that must be included in an answer, and then use their postal (or two-letter) abbreviations in a common phrase or term that cleverly answers the question posed by the clue.
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"The Club for Growth has actually spent more money this year against conservatives than the D.N.C., D.S.C.C. and D.C.C.C. combined," said Brian Baker, the 45Committee president, using the abbreviations for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic senatorial and congressional campaign committees.
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Jobs day has also become something of a monthly club meeting for economics nerds, complete with its own clubhouse (Twitter) and secret language: "beats" and "misses," U-873 and U-6 (two different measures of unemployment), and an alphabet soup of obscure acronyms and abbreviations.
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It also has hats that are stitched with some teams' postal service abbreviations and area codes, hats that have crammed each team's logo into an outline of its home state, and dozens of other color combinations and patterns that you'll never see during a game.
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When they start looking, they enter a Twilight Zone where gold is not a precious metal and cost does not means cost, where there are incomprehensible abbreviations like APTC (advanced premium tax credit) coupled with eligibility standards and application forms that make no sense.
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It can expand text abbreviations (so you can set up a two-letter code for your email address, for example), help you build a fully customized Start menu, add new keyboard shortcuts and mouse gesture actions to your programs, auto-complete words and phrases, and more besides.
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The really neat thing about this theme is that we get quite a bit of bang for the Monday buck: Not only are the shaded/circled squares state abbreviations, but the first part of each of the theme entries is also the nickname of each state.
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A big role in the credit crisis was played by C.D.S. of C.D.O. squared based on C.D.O. based on R.M.B.S. Being told that those abbreviations stand for credit-default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and residential mortgage-backed securities didn't help much; it just punted the explanation downfield.
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In this new era, recently demarcated with a new numbering system for calendars and the new abbreviations BBL and ABL (Before Big Leader & After Big Leader), citizens were always valued for their work and always heard; they gave to the central messaging system with their own bodies.
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E-prescribing is well understood to assist prescribers by allowing patients and doctors to better guard against medication errors, such as drug-to-drug interactions, reduce common errors inherent in paper-based prescribing, including illegible handwriting, misinterpreted abbreviations and unclear dosages, and provide critical decision support tools.
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TEAM CREST was a Hail Mary pass of trying different combinations of words that end in AM with those that start with C. If I remember correctly, there weren't many more, if any, cable channel trigrams that were workable acronyms and not abbreviations, such as SHO.
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However, there were many more abbreviations that were not spelled out letter-by-letter (like "sing." for "singular" or "in." for inch), so I ended up switching to that type of abbreviation to make the Sunday "THE SHORT FORM," which appeared a little less than a year ago.
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I also keep a list called "[Expletive, rhymes with 'Witty'] Word List," which is for entries that I am personally disinclined to use in a themeless (partials, prefixes, suffixes, most abbreviations) but which come in handy for themed puzzles, where the rules on these things are a little looser.
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Khoong and her colleagues evaluated 100 sets of actual ER patient discharge instructions written in English, and rated them on readability; quality of diagnosis explanation, follow-up instructions, medication instructions, return precautions and greeting; medical jargon content; nonmedical nonstandard English issue, such as use of abbreviations, colloquial English, proper nouns and spelling issues.
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We have spent the last few decades learning to read the sophisticated messages of advertising so we know when we are being sold; comprehend the images in film shots that now average just 2.5 seconds; and parse the double code of images, abbreviations, and emoji squeezed into the 140-character confines of a tweet.
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That system, with its lines of alphanumeric codes and arcane medical abbreviations, has given birth to a gigantic new industry of consultants, armies of back-room experts whom medical providers and insurance companies deploy against each other in an endless war over which medical procedures were undertaken and how much to pay for them.
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But otherwise there seemed to be a pretty exotic menagerie, including unfamiliar clues for names like SANTO, EDER and OMAR; a bunch of slangy expressions (including a couple of long ones — EXCUSE YOU, LAZYBONES); a ton of abbreviations and shortcuts, many of which solvers are primed to pick up on — REM, IPO, OPED — and a couple of oddballs, to me at least, like PARA and ASTI.
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To rifle through it is to gain entrance to a beautifully hallucinogenic universe straight out of a David Foster Wallace novel, a world entirely devoid of white space and crammed with tiny type—Steele once experimented with making the type even smaller, then realized no one could actually read it—and hundreds of monomaniacal abbreviations the author made up on his own in order to save still more space.
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The following are just some of the allegations in the suit, which uses the abbreviations HW for Harvey Weinstein and TWC for the Weinstein Company: The suit also alleges that senior executives at the company, including Weinstein's brother and co-founder Bob Weinstein and David Glasser, the chief operating officer (referred to in the suit only by his title), knew about misconduct by Weinstein but did not take adequate action to protect employees.
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