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Example sentences for: abbreviation

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Walker made a plea not to adopt the abbreviation "SBIR" because it is already used to designate small business innovation research grants by federal agencies.
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').
At my Victorian grandmama's knee I was taught that one uses the abbreviation "messrs" (plural of mister) only when addressing two men with the same surname residing at the same address--an admittedly Victorian situation.
Diesenhaus described his use of a slogan and abbreviation for a treatment strategy, "Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral-SBIR."
Health Care Terms contains a good deal besides initialisms, but I focus on those because they are probably most representative of the jargon we are faced with whenever we encounter the Bureaucracy: as if the compounding of incomprehensible, undescriptive jargon were not enough, those who concoct that obfuscating gobbledygook are not content till they have turned it into an abbreviation or an acronym.