5 sentences with 'acronym'
Example sentences and phrases with the word acronym and other words derived from it.
• « In 1602, Dutch merchants with the support of the state created the world's first corporation: the Dutch East India Company (VOC in its Dutch acronym). »
• « In 1921, under Hitler's leadership, the Nazis organised a paramilitary wing called the Stormtroopers (SA in its German acronym). »
• « His secret police force, the NKVD (its Russian acronym - later changed to the KGB) often following direct orders from Stalin himself, eliminated countless thousands more. Thus, even at the highest levels of power in the USSR, no one was safe from Stalin's paranoia. »
• « The initial letter "X" for the NASP experimental model is the acronym for all experimental air vehicles. The direct predecessor of the X-30 is the X-15, but there were many other experimental models before it in the history of aviation. »
• « The acronym inri stands for the Latin words Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, which, in English, means "Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews". Pilate had the inscription placed on the cross so that the cause of Jesus would be written. »