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S.V.R.

American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) rectified spirit of wine (alcohol).


Etymology

Origin of S.V.R.

From Latin spīritus vīnī rēctificātus

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The new incident did not appear anywhere near as far-reaching as the original SolarWinds intrusion, which U.S. intelligence says was the work of the S.V.R.,

From New York Times Jul. 13, 2021

Zatuliveter had been observed with an S.V.R. officer in London; she also had relationships with a German nato official and a Dutch diplomat.

From The New Yorker Mar. 18, 2019

Volodarksy, the former G.R.U. officer, suggested to me that Udod was also the S.V.R. agent who had met with Ekaterina Zatuliveter in London.

From The New Yorker Mar. 18, 2019

Sergei Naryshkin of the S.V.R., the sly fox in the room, casually leaned toward his microphone.

From New York Times Oct. 23, 2018

A very comfortable church was built at Byron in 1855, under the labors of Rev. S.V.R.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

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