Sentence examples for At acronyms from inspiring English sources

Language purists blanch at acronyms, but corporations love to invent grandiose new titles and efficiently compress them into convenient, three-letter shorthand.

All of that said, I hope that I'm keeping The Moment world enthralled enough to check back in tomorrow when I try my hand at allegorical acronyms!

Dennis Trainor, Jr. is a writer, Documentary filmmaker and podcaster who publishes at The Acronym Journal.

The diabolical loop nearly brought the house down before the ECB began throwing high-powered acronyms at the problem.

Photographing oneself easily and well is a talent that, like being able to download music via mind control or reduce whole paragraphs to acronyms at warp speed, is now a given for young people.

Reporters who had seen one security agency slide provided by Edward J. Snowden, a former agency contract employee, "misinterpreted some of the acronyms at the bottom of the slide and saw this 70 million phone call figure – this was about a counterterrorism program that had nothing to do with French citizens," Mr. Rogers asserted.

Otherwise your suspicions will be confirmed when you're driving back from a party, it's 3am and they spot a strange local outside the house and go into full-on military response mode, driving round and round the house shouting acronyms at each other and into the radio when you just really want to get to bed.

All PMB (Priscilla M. Burgoyne) vouchers are stored at PRE. Herbarium acronyms: PRE, National herbarium, Pretoria, South Africa; MO, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA; BOL, Bolus, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

To facilitate usage across countries, a glossary of acronyms at the back of the publication has been translated into French and Spanish.

It may be hypothesised that fierce academic competition spurred the origin of such use, and that new researchers have been subject to peer pressure and assigned acronyms at all cost to avoid academic marginalisation and ridicule.

I was present, if not at the birth of the acronym, at least when the spoken word was in its infancy.