FDR
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Words to be inscribed alongside those of FDR and Churchill, no doubt.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
FDR felt compelled to dramatically reconfigure our economic norms at the time to pull us out of the Great Depression.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
Frustrated by his programs being ruled unconstitutional, FDR threatened to “pack” the Supreme Court by adding justices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
FDR took office in 1933, when the Great Depression was in full swing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
In a memo to FDR, Byrnes had urged that an outside panel of eminent scientists give the program a once-over—“rather a jittery and nervous memorandum and rather silly,” Stimson recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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