The National Science Foundation has given $9.1 million to the project called Vortex2 (of course it has a convoluted backronym), which will take place from May 10-June 13.— Slashdot: Science
N.O.R.E. is a backronym for Niggaz On (the) Run Eatin '.— Hip Hop News from HipHopGalaxy.com
Kseniya, maybe it's acronymic, and SF will astound us with a pithy backronym.— Planet Atheism
"FUBAR") was probably a backronym [JARGON].— LXer Linux News
That's a backronym, and a pretty lame one at that.— Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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