Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation chronic fatigue syndrome
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- initialism medicine
Chronic fatigue syndrome .
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Examples
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YFS, not unlike CFS, is so ideological it should be no surprise that it would support the union regardless of how objectively unreasonable its demands are.
Yet Another Strike at York University (and Osgoode Hall)? : Law is Cool 2008
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Her main CFS secret: soak the tenderized beef in buttermilk overnight before battering.
Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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What do you mean that CFS is neither chicken nor steak?
Cream of the gravy crop | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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In Austin, I gotta agree that the best place for CFS is Hoover's.
Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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That CFS is balking at this particular rule thus seems likely to me to stem from hostility to the religious nature of the parents’ beliefs, and not from a sense that a child’s “religious, cultural and personal rights” indeed include the right to have pork in his home when his foster parents insist otherwise.
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I should also note that if CFS had officially announced its policies up front, and left the parents free to go through other services — of which there seem to be many — I wouldn’t have as much concern, even though CFS is a government contractor that certifies people for government-required licenses.
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CFS is only one of many such private agencies who have been licensed by the state to issue licenses to foster parents on the state’s behalf.
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CFS is pitiably doctrinaire, and plain ol’ stupid.
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I also realized how easy it is for people to confuse the experience of everyday tiredness with the incapacitating illness known as CFS.
An Illness That's Hard To Live With—Or Define Leonard A. Jason 2011
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Recently reformed, the CFS is a global policy forum on food that has a participatory mechanism in which Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are autonomous and self-organizing.
Eric Holt Gimenez: A Tale of Three Cities:The global Struggle Over Who Will End Hunger 2010
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