S.P.R.

American  

abbreviation

1. Society for Psychical Research.

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SPR British  

abbreviation

1. Society for Psychical Research

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Example Sentences

“A release of S.P.R. volumes, which are mostly held in crude oil and not oil products like gasoline, would offer a reprieve to gasoline prices, but the impact would likely be mild and short-lived,” said Louise Dickson, senior oil markets analyst at Rystad Energy, a consultancy.

From New York Times

I found the memo, on Shelton Hospital letterhead, last December, along with some letters from Barker, in a brown envelope in the S.P.R. archive, which is kept in the Cambridge University Library.

From The New Yorker

In a paper for the S.P.R.’s journal, he wrote that, even if people had experienced a plausible prophecy of what happened in Aberfan, there had been no way to report a warning, let alone for it to be believed: “Firstly because their premonitions would probably have been insufficiently clear, and secondly because no means existed for them to communicate them to the proper authorities.”

From The New Yorker

“I am not ‘sold’ on E.S.P., but I have always maintained that a purely physical view is far too restricted,” he wrote, in a letter to Guy Lambert, a former president of the S.P.R.

From The New Yorker

“There are credible arguments that the optimal size of the S.P.R. should be smaller than it is,” Mr. Bordoff said.

From New York Times