truncate
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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
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
"We shall continue to protect the peace and security of Sierra Leone against the forces that wish to truncate our much-cherished stability," Bio said on social media.
From Reuters ● Nov. 26, 2023
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
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“It truncates the closure of his character,” he told the Hollywood Reporter at the time.
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
“We are going to have to operate on a more truncated timeline,” Justice Brendan Lantry told city lawyers at a state court hearing in Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And that’s not greatly practical for smartphone devotees, who are already getting a truncated image of one weather possibility that was sent before the model was scheduled to refresh.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
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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 is, of course, the explosive force from below which keeps the crater clear, as a cup-shaped hollow, truncating the cone; and all stones falling into it would be only thrown out again.
From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Charles Morris
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