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  • D.M.S.
    D.M.S.
    abbreviation
    Director of Medical Services.
  • DMS
    DMS
    abbreviation
    Diploma in Management Studies
  • DMs
    DMs
    abbreviation
    Doc Martens

D.M.S.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Director of Medical Services.

  2. Doctor of Medical Science.


DMS 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Diploma in Management Studies

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

DMs 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Doc Martens

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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D.M.S. and its allies adopted such maneuvers as spraying skunk scent in the vaults of Mellon banks and disrupting worship services attended by executives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The parishioners accused him of devoting more attention to D.M.S. than to his flock's spiritual needs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, Lutheran investigations have begun of parishioners' complaints against two other D.M.S. clergy: William Rex Jr. of Trafford and Daniel Solberg of Allison Park.

From Time Magazine Archive

"All Roth has done is to disrupt some people's thinking, and for that he's been jailed and defrocked," says D.M.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The casualty clearing stations and the mobile laboratories, are under the D.M.S. of the army, who is responsible for the clearing of the hospitals by motor ambulance convoys and by hospital train.

From On the Fringe of the Great Fight by George G. (George Gallie) Nasmith

But it looks very likely, as last month’s research built on a paper published in 2023 that also found suggestions of DMS on the same planet but relied on different evidence.

From Salon May 31, 2025

He compared the odor of DMS to “fish that stayed too long in the sun,” adding, quite understandably, that “we usually avoid” such associations “when we recreate the smell of the sea in perfumery.”

From Salon May 31, 2025

As the perfumer Laudamiel told Salon, DMS is “often used in perfumery, but not for its low-tide, rotten egg facet.”

From Salon May 31, 2025

So there was great excitement when DMS was discovered on a “sub-Neptune planet” far from our solar system – 124 light years away, or about 17 trillion miles, in the constellation Leo.

From Salon May 31, 2025

Anthrax quickly hunted through his hacking disks for a text file on DMS 100s he had copied from an underground BBS.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

“The argument that there’s important information exchanged in these DMs is correct,” he said, and granting AI systems access to internal conversational data allows organizations to train agents more effectively.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Tiptoeing into Valdez’s DMs with “I may know the artist,” the two arranged to meet at the warehouse where Flod disclosed his identity, declining compensation and asking only for access to Pillarhenge.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

“I got a lot of DMs after the videos from last night,” he told me.

From Slate May 29, 2026

You wrote in from inboxes and DMs and social feeds with questions about everything from drink quandaries to annoying cousins.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2025

That was when I checked Twitter and saw some DMs from Bren and Mop.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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