Other Word Forms
- acronymical adjective
- acronymically adverb
- nonacronymic adjective
Example Sentences
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Like the film’s acronymic title, Barish was raised by a deaf parent, her mother, now 85.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Well before the present glut of studios with acronymic titles, H&dM garnered international attention in the 1990s as a relative rarity in a profession then dominated by big-name lone wolves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2018
By total coincidence, this week we present the results of our contest for limericks featuring words beginning “gl-” through “go-” — which included Jesse’s use of “GOAT” in its new, acronymic sense.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018
The curl of the thumb is almost jaunty, casual, echoing the informality of the blurry background and the acronymic caption.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2018
There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic, standing for "Card Hole Aggregate Debris", but this has all the earmarks of a bogus folk etymology. :chad box: /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
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