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It's happening right now, Trump added, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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The police union said it was simply an acronym and not racist.
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The dreaded acronym is, of course, SAC - Special Areas of Conservation.
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Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, using a common acronym for Islamic State.
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Hope was the nickname of an acronym: Hedge funds for Old-Age Pensioners.
Usage of initialism in English
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When the International Monetary Fund rolled into Ireland as one-third of the "troika", the fist of its IMF initialism punched fear and revulsion into many.
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Joyce Carol Oates's compendious new novel is set 20 years hence in a derivative dystopian world, replete with the habitual initialisms.