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
Though political Washington, D.C., adores acronyms, I ask The Post’s editors to refrain from abbreviating the refuge’s evocative name.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
And apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2019
Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s Twitter biography likewise describes him, abbreviating some of the ensembles he directs, as “Father of Rotterdam Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre Métropolitain Mtl” — and “Future father of the Met.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2018
As their works are accessible to comparatively few of our readers, we will annex a quotation from several of them, at the same time abbreviating them as much as is consistent with perspicuity.
From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker
