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"ref": "1965, Design news, volume 20, numbers 10-17",
"text": "Let me assure you, sir, that I will, in the interests of APANUA, continue the ceaseless fight against senseless acronymity, initialese, indecipherable abbreviation.",
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"Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms."
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"(informal) Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms."
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