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- noun   Plural form of abbreviator .
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								In time, abbreviators of the 1830s discovered that there was even more amusement to be obtained by using letters for phrases spelled wrongly. The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010 
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								In time, abbreviators of the 1830s discovered that there was even more amusement to be obtained by using letters for phrases spelled wrongly. The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010 
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								What great contribution to Western literature do abbreviators believe they are going to be able to achieve with those two saved characters? 
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								In my humble opinion Take that dim-witted abbreviators! Only Two of the Top 30 Grossing Films of This Decade Are Original | /Film 2009 
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								Reactions like these are interesting, because they indicate a wide range of changes within the mainstream media MSM, as the abbreviators like to call it. The right to morals Torill 2005 
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								Reactions like these are interesting, because they indicate a wide range of changes within the mainstream media MSM, as the abbreviators like to call it. Archive 2005-05-01 Torill 2005 
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								In fact, it is probably the case that in any classroom the most competent students are the ones who are themost proficient paraphrasers, master abbreviators of incoming information. A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002 
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								In fact, it is probably the case that in any classroom the most competent students are the ones who are themost proficient paraphrasers, master abbreviators of incoming information. A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002 
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								"Sapienti consilio" of 29 June, 1908, sign the papal Bulls instead of the earlier abbreviators (q.v.). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913 
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								Eusebius of Caesarea and his two abbreviators, Socrates and Sozomen, as well as Rufinus and Gelasius of Cyzicus, report no details of the theological discussions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913 
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