FDR
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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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
The ghost of Walter Lippmann leaning into the wireless to hear FDR . . . stole into me.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
FDR took office in 1933, when the Great Depression was in full swing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
The presidents with the highest “fearless dominance” ranking will be familiar: Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, and FDR.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025
In a memo to FDR, Byrnes had urged that an outside panel of eminent scientists give the program a once-over—“rather a jittery and nervous memorandum and rather silly,” Stimson recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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