abbrev.
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OK, well one word and one abbrev.
From Golf Digest
This is the first time I've ever heard of HQ as being anything but an abbrev. for headquarters.
From New York Times
QuickType will predict and autocorrect differently once it learns that you are more formal in emails with your boss, and informal when texting with an abbrev.-loving friend.
From Newsweek
That’s part of the reason, for example, that the OED was just adding tweet in 2013, while ODO is today including TL;DR—an abbrev that may say more about these fragmented, hurried times than any other entry in the bunch.
From Time
Verb. abbrev. cap. 27-29, 38-40.—Grandjean,
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