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Example sentences for: acronyms

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

Wednesday's International Herald Tribune described current efforts to remove "military jargon, acronyms and politically correct euphemisms" that crept into the Indonesian language during the 32-year rule of President Suharto.
In the small community hospital where I teach and practice hematology and oncology, I frequently struggle to decode the abbreviations and acronyms used by house staff and medical students.
In Solzhenitsyn's brilliant title for his exposé of Soviet forced-labor camps, Arkhipelag GULag , he exploits the ugliness inherent in one of these acronyms.
We are all familiar with the naming process, whether it be with the great relief at hearing the doctor say “muscular strain” instead of “rheumatoid arthritis” as he examines the x-rays, with the Sunday supplement newspaper article summing up (for the umpteenth time) the latest new words and acronyms, with nothing with amusement, admiration, or consternation what some people name their children, and with scores of other instances we encounter daily.
I have traveled throughout Europe, the Far East, and North America, but nowhere have I found more abbreviations and acronyms in use than in the U.S., particularly in the medical field.