Although many publicly-traded entities still use abbreviations of their names as ticker symbols, some companies have chosen to use theirs as marketing tools by picking symbols that form a word related to their business or convey an action or idea.

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She follows conversation, reacts, engages and offers unsolicited ideas -- usually in the form of a single word or gesture that makes clear what she means.

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Every agreement, item, code and vendor must be manually put into a Word form.

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He also gets a lot of sales form word of mouth, referrals and from people who read about his company somewhere else online or in a magazine.

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In the simplest form, it is just a word without the need to follow any strict taxonomy or definition.

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But it says there was an earlier form of the word, supercalafajalistickespialadojus, first documented in a song in 1949.

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It would be great if the word (economic) cycle only existed in a singular form, and the only cycle we had in the economy was happy expansion.

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In fact, if you word it differently, it might be more recognizable as a form of innovation.

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Whatever language a person is reading, the same area of inferotemporal cortex, the visual word form area, is activated.

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The latest word is that StarForce, a company that makes DRM for some gaming companies, has implemented a form of DRM that can force a PC to reboot without giving the user any prior warning.

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