truncated
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He peeled off the sticker that told its owner’s truncated story, rendering it now anonymous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Though the film was originally reported to be three-and-a-half hours long, covering far more of Jackson’s life, this truncated version clocks in at just over two.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 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
The bill opened with an onstage, truncated ballet class, with Erán Fink at the piano, conducted by Tomas Karlborg, the group’s wisecracking ballet master.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
New World societies had just begun making bronze artifacts and had not yet started making iron ones at the time when the arrival of Europeans truncated the New World’s independent trajectory.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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