FDR
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Mr. Newsom told the left-leaning Center for American Progress this month that Democrats should talk about AI “as FDR talked in 1944, about a new social compact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Words to be inscribed alongside those of FDR and Churchill, no doubt.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
FDR had led an unprecedented crackdown on Wall Street, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
FDR felt compelled to dramatically reconfigure our economic norms at the time to pull us out of the Great Depression.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Elizebeth had not had much to do with FDR, but Eleanor Roosevelt had often invited her to tea and garden parties at the White House.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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