Their extreme sport is called BASE jumping, whose acronymic name derives from the four types of structures that its unusual athletes leap from—buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs).—Roger Rosenblatt, Time, 19 July 1999
So we can redesign the name DRIPS, with all five letters being comfortably acronymical, and try to ignore the embarrassing question of whether it is singular or plural.—Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, 2004
There is a place for full sentences and correct spelling, even amid the acronymically possessed. —Christine Hicks-Usta, Buffalo (New York) News, 12 Aug. 2007
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