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Example sentences for: abbreviation

How can you use “abbreviation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It is more than a hundred years later before an efficient abbreviation for it is found.
This article also provided a significant antedating for N.F.G. no fucking good, an abbreviation accidentally omitted from The F-Word but included in the book's parent work with a first cite from 1977.
Had I needed it, a Help key should have brought an instant explanation of the symbol * and the abbreviation OE.
Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two theories: On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution.
Short acronyms are especially problematic (for example, 'CT', the abbreviation for 'calcitonin' can be found in the title of over 20,000 abstracts, of which only 25 contain the term 'calcitonin').