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Later studies by Wagner's group and other scientists showed that this shortening occurs across many types of cancer and may help tumors adapt, survive, and escape treatment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Tour de France organisers announced that they were shortening the following day's final stage of the cycling race due to the wildfires ravaging southwest France.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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

Younger eggs, she said, would likely have improved her IVF odds, potentially shortening the years it took to have her children, and reducing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

She ate well and grew fat, until at last the shortening days and cold air urged her to go.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“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

At fault are the so-called trans monounsaturated fatty acids used as hardeners in margarines, shortenings and commercial frying fats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tyranny constrains the writer to shortenings of diameter which are increases of strength.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike