Other Word Forms
- acronymical adjective
- acronymically adverb
- nonacronymic adjective
Example Sentences
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Like the film’s acronymic title, Barish was raised by a deaf parent, her mother, now 85.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
Well before the present glut of studios with acronymic titles, H&dM garnered international attention in the 1990s as a relative rarity in a profession then dominated by big-name lone wolves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2018
By total coincidence, this week we present the results of our contest for limericks featuring words beginning “gl-” through “go-” — which included Jesse’s use of “GOAT” in its new, acronymic sense.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018
Besides both being acronymic Jebs – named in infancy like Bush – their lives, nomenclatively speaking, might as well be my own.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2015
There is a myth, not entirely implausible, that alt is acronymic for "anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists"; but in fact it is simply short for "alternative".
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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