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Analysts at investment banks connected to listing companies can now publish research alongside company prospectuses, shortening the IPO process by seven days, the Financial Conduct Authority said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

By binding to that location, the tool prevented cancer cells from reaching and shortening the end, or tail, of the molecule.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Oil tankers and cargo ships use it to reach the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, shortening journeys between Asia and Europe and North America by thousands of kilometres.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Among wealthy university students in the 1880s and 1890s, there was a habit of shortening words and adding "-er" to the end, creating a kind of slang.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“But aren’t you shortening her life by giving her so much?”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

“Fats and shortenings are absolutely critical to pies,” says Ernest Miller, research and development chef at Coast Packing Co., a major supplier of animal fats and shortenings for cooking, baking and frying based in Vernon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2017

Anna Wierzbicka, a linguistics professor at the Australian National University, has said the country’s love affair with such shortenings reflects cherished ideals like “mateship,” humor, informality and a dislike for “long words.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2017

“You must like to decipher lousy handwriting, shortenings and a text without punctuation. You have to know the vocabulary of the 19th century,” Kutzer said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2017

Also short were prepared flour, vegetable shortenings, macaroni, canned meat.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the shortenings was Shreve's Cut-off, made only twenty-one years before this birth year of the Votaress.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable