truncate

Example Sentences

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When price caps truncate the payoff window, many of their projects never get financed or are abandoned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 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