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is abbreviating

  • present progressive
    of abbreviate (3rd person singular).
    abbreviate
    verb (used with object)
    to shorten (a word or phrase) by omitting letters, substituting shorter forms, etc., so that the shortened form can represent the whole word or phrase, as ft. for foot, ab. for about, R.I. for Rhode Island, NW for Northwest, or Xn for Christian.

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Like humans, says Frey, lakes grow old and inevitably die, in a predictable life span that man himself is abbreviating.

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