A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
As other art historians have suggested, it may be impossible to think of their style as anything but collaborative, especially since Michel was an illustrator, adept at abbreviating forms.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
But the hastily built websites can be tripped up by someone abbreviating a word or putting an extra space in an address.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020
And then the boss said: “Guys, I hate to be a noodge, but could we get back to abbreviating the states? We still have 49 left.”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
Instead of the demonstrations that fill geometry, the whole content of arithmetic and algebra is thus simply a method of abbreviating counting.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
