PGP
1 Americanabbreviation
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PGPs
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Computers. an encryption program using a public key, commonly adopted for email.
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Pathology. Medicine. pelvic girdle pain.
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Post Graduate Programme: any of a suite of graduate programs in business-related disciplines, offered by institutions in India and recognized internationally as equivalent to the MBA.
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Cell Biology. Pgp.
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preferred gender pronoun.
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Like Rebecca, she didn't know what PGP was when she began experiencing the condition during her first pregnancy.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
Victoria still struggles with a degree of PGP today, four years on, but her second pregnancy was much easier to manage because she understood her condition and how to handle it.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
The debate over end-to-end encryption has had several iterations, beginning in the 1990s with the spread of Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, software, an end-to-end encryption scheme designed by a programmer named Phil Zimmermann.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
Programmer Phil Zimmerman soon spoiled the scheme by developing a tool called PGP, which encrypted communications so that they could only be read by the sender and receiver.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2019
The program PGP has become the defacto international Internet standard for public key encryption.
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
Government prices are Pgn, Pgp and Pgs, giving gnr and gpr and gsr.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
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