truncate

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 truncates the closure of his character. It doesn’t alter it, but it truncates it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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 Seeley, H. G.

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

We expect exchanges will be under significant pressure to add so-called zero-dated options, whose truncated expiration cycles enable investors to bet on daily stock swings.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

"We think whether or not a protein exists primarily in its elongated or in its truncated form might form a regulatory cue for the cell."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026

At the very start of primary school, his education was truncated by his father's death.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

One of these latter drawings contained a detail he found in none of the others, either a truncated passage or a small room in a location which seemed either senseless or mistaken.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Outside of truncating his foreign travel, Mr. Biden also agreed to cut other congressional leaders out of the debt-limit negotiations and deal directly with the speaker.

From Washington Times ● May 16, 2023

If a plasmid instructs E. coli to build the whole protein at once, the bacterium will avoid the production burden by removing or truncating the plasmid.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2021

Throughout these performances, Meyerson did not feel bound by the written score, adding fanciful embellishments or triumphant cadences; truncating repeats or adding partial repeats as tags; and filling in chordal textures.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

So, instead of truncating the subject of the book-return, she interwove it with the interesting mansion of Sister Nora's family, referring especially to the causes of her own visit to it.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend