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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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“But what we’ve learned from this is that the S.V.R., which is very good, isn’t slowing down.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

The Russians caught trying to get vaccine information were part of the group known as Cozy Bear, a collection of hackers affiliated with the S.V.R.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2020

Cozy Bear’s ties are to the S.V.R., the Russian equivalent of the C.I.A., according to current and former officials.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2020

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

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 Wesson Gage Miller

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