R&D
research and development.
R&D
American
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R and D
R & D
British
abbreviation
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Developing separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines and bringing them to market could take a decade of R&D including clinical trials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Instead of putting another GLP-1 like semaglutide into trials, Lilly decided to pair a GLP-1 with a GIP receptor agonist in what Lundberg described as a “very close collaboration between R&D and the business unit.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
GSK separately announced Tuesday that it plans to invest £400 million on a new major R&D centre in university city Cambridge, eastern England.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Startups from France, Colorado and Australia have committed to installing quantum computers and conducting R&D at the park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
This time, Robert Kibler of BellSouth Security estimated the value of the twelve pages as a mere $24,639.05—based, purportedly, on "R&D costs."
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
The family and Oor Wullie - which also first appeared in 1936 - were created by the same two men, R D Law and W D Watkins.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
The first buildings were identified with the letters on the keyboard used to play “League of Legends”: Q, W, E, R, D, and F.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022
It will close with the world premiere of Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant as infamous Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2017
They found the letters F O R D on the brown paper around the torso, didn't they?
From Time Magazine Archive
Diamine nitrazol brown R D, 1 lb. soda and 20 lb.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
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