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SPD

British

abbreviation

Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands

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Etymology

Origin of SPD

German: Social Democratic Party of Germany

Example Sentences

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Mr. Klingbeil is a co-leader of the center-left Social Democratic Party, or SPD, which is the junior partner in an awkward governing condominium with Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democrats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Today, SPD and Die Linke together hold 19 and 10 percent of the seats in Germany’s parliament, respectively.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Lars Düsterhöft, a lawmaker in Berlin with the center-left SPD who has championed human composting in the German capital, said the industry arguments were smokescreens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

With their support so low after the February polls, the CDU/CSU and the SPD "are finding it more difficult to reach compromises," Aiko Wagner, a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin, told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

His name was derived from his serial initials, of course, but it was apt, nevertheless, for the SPD models were among the fastest robots turned out by the United States Robot & Mechanical Men Corp.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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