The phrase "as standing for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining what a particular term, symbol, or abbreviation represents or signifies.
Example: "In the context of this discussion, 'AI' is often used as standing for 'Artificial Intelligence'."
Alternatives: "as representing" or "as denoting".
But as an object lesson of how fast images can spread in the digital world and how quickly they can come to stand for many different things, even if they began as standing for nothing, consider the blank white planter, the red goat and a tattoo artist with not much to do on the streets of Kingston.
14 Read as a whole, I do not see Dunsmuir as standing for the proposition that the "adequacy" of reasons is a stand-alone basis for quashing a decision, or as advocating that a reviewing court undertake two discrete analyses -- one for the reasons and a separate one for the result….
The ads will underline that by presenting the name AARP as standing for "An Ally for Real Possibilities," and suggest that the "R" in the name stands for positive words like "reimagine," "rewarding" and "richer".
He would be seen as standing for nothing.
Kink, which they saw as standing for both, would now negate that work.
More conservatively, the poet Theagenes (6th century bce) allegorized the gods, treating them as standing for natural and psychological forces.
She knew today that standing up to the police might prove as good for her career as standing up for them proved to be for politicians in the past.
The nonprofit developer known as Catch (standing for Community Assisted Tenant Controlled Housing Inc).
In 1973 Party Line became known as TAP, standing for "technological assistance program".
My calves ache, as if standing for three hours is more exercise than I get in one typically slovenly, indolent day.
"If you're seen by the country as not standing for a strong America, the country will not listen to you on other issues," he said.
