truncated
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To create the new structures, the researchers synthesized silver nanoparticles shaped like truncated octahedra, which they call "mecons."
From Science Daily • May 30, 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
Research spearheaded in the mid-1980s helped determine that a truncated form of GLP-1 spurred insulin release, setting off a two-decade journey to turn the hormone into an effective diabetes treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
That sentiment was more clearly expanded on when the band closed out the Friday show with a truncated rendition of Bob Marley’s 1973 hit “Get Up, Stand Up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
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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