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acronymically

  • a word derived from acronym.
    acronym
    noun
    a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
  • a word derived from acronymic.
    acronymic
    adjective
    expressed as or being an acronym.

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"WAGS" are the wives and girlfriends of pro athletes, acronymically speaking, in this new reality series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2015

The approach is also known, less acronymically, as “hybrid” or “blended learning.”

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2013

Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now a new sulfone, acronymically named DADDS, is being tested by PUS doctors in a long-lasting injection form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strapping himself down in the console seat, he flipped the switch that would connect him with Systems Control Officer Bessandra Khamar at the console of the ship's big computer, acronymically known as Sad Cow.

From Where I Wasn't Going by Walt Richmond

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