Sentences with phrase «unfortunate acronym»
The phrase "unfortunate acronym" refers to a situation where the initials or letters that make up an acronym unintentionally spell out a word or phrase that is negative, inappropriate, or unrelated to the intended meaning. Full definition
2009 v 2016: Yeah, it's an unfortunate acronym, but Messi, Eto'o and Henry is actually a staggering line up when you think about it.
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BTW, Rick Santorum also tried to launch a money bomb recently, but he did so using a name («Conservatives United Moneybomb») that lends itself to an unfortunate acronym and headlines like this one.
BETHESDA, MARYLAND — Fuzzy definitions, deep disagreement about risks and benefits, and an unfortunate acronym: All bedeviled an expert panel as it met here last week to examine whether the United States should fund certain risky pathogen experiments.
STEM is an unfortunate acronym, because we look for the S, the T, the E, and the M when we develop curriculum.
The Billinghurst book spawned the unfortunate acronym BARF (Bones and Raw Foods).
Or, as they're known by the unfortunate acronym for multiplayer online battle arena, a MOBA.
He also noted that Jimmy Carter's plan, calling energy independence the «moral equivalent of war» could be reduced to the unfortunate acronym MEOW.
Thus it's not surprising that when the United Nations General Assembly voted on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the DRIP — an unfortunate acronym if ever there was one) in September 2007, only Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States voted against it.