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truncate

[truhng-keyt] / ˈtrʌŋ keɪt /


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They are rewriting course material and asking students to truncate class discussions about race and sex, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

It said that "maybe for the best of intentions, it led the Commission to truncate her evidence," adding: "That appears to have prevented her from completing her account."

From BBC May 10, 2025

But the constitutional terrain would shift in one essential respect: Courts would no longer be permitted to truncate the narrative.

From Slate Apr. 15, 2025

“In order to do a new rule or undo an old rule, you still have to go through the rulemaking process. I suspect they’re going to try to truncate that in some way.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2024

He pointed out that it was relatively easy to pronounce, though there was the danger that Americans, obsessed with abbreviation, would truncate it to Nick.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

“It doesn’t alter it, but it truncates it.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2023

This low carbon-use efficiency substantially truncates the CO2-fertilization effect.

From Nature Apr. 7, 2020

In short, Fea’s individualist focus truncates his analysis repeatedly throughout his book, despite his clear understanding and concern for the importance of community.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2018

She truncates her home-town visit and dashes back to Romania to return to work, where she’s preparing a plan for an oil company to outsource labor and throw employees out of work.

From The New Yorker Dec. 21, 2016

In these Cretaceous genera, toothed and toothless alike, the articulation for the upper arm bone truncates the extremity of the coracoid, so that the bone is less like that of a bird in this feature.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

Anthropic said the government’s actions had contributed to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled, truncated or stalled contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Lithwick: Chase decided, in a very truncated opinion, that Turner’s apprenticeship violated the 13th Amendment’s prohibition of involuntary servitude and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

The minutes were shorter but not as terse as some economists feared, though some of the description of the discussions seemed truncated.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

The impact for third-placed teams is greater in this truncated tournament, with no rest days before the knockout rounds begin.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Perry, who could never find trousers to fit his truncated lower half, wore blue jeans rolled up at the bottom and a leather windbreaker.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

It would almost certainly lead these areas to be cordoned off from public use, truncating shared spaces for recreation and nature access and the benefits that come with them.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2025

A spokesman for the committee acknowledged truncating the text and apologized for doing so.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 2022

On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would be truncating the nation’s flagship public high-speed rail project, the train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, to run between….

From Slate Feb. 12, 2019

With his severe ankle sprain from last season’s playoffs lingering into the summer and truncating his workout time, his explosiveness is still lacking.

From Washington Times Dec. 3, 2017

It was as though there were in them two contradictory things: an inconsistent character, believing in nothing, and discursive Reason, intent on truncating, mowing down, and crushing life, without regard for anything.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan




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