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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

Another arrested squatter was Lutheran Pastor William Rex, a D.M.S. activist who faces additional troubles.

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

At the suggestion of the D.M.S. of the army, Major Rankin made a survey of the army area for anopheles mosquitoes.

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

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

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

Dimethyl sulfide, also known as DMS, sounds like it could be a chemical compound you’d try to avoid on an ingredient label or the poisonous ingredient in a murder mystery.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

Well, let’s consider the story of DMS on Earth, a story of the strange and poetic ways life appears and reappears in different guises — and with different scents.

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

"Some of the girls have had DMs saying 'it would have made our day, we're disappointed' and it breaks your heart because you want everyone to have the best time ever."

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“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

And because of the nature of my work, my inbox and DMs were lighting up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Discovery, Tennessee slid into Paramount’s DMs, suggesting it would be better treated in the southern state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

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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