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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
Dogged perhaps by World Cup fatigue in India, last year's IPL was a commercial disappointment, major news for a competition in which, to quote Pitbull's own acronymic debut album M.I.A.M.I.,
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013
There is a legend that the word was originally acronymic, standing for "Card Hole Aggregate Debris", but this has all the earmarks of a backronym.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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