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shortening

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verb

present participle of shorten

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of shortening
Noun
In a large bowl, cream the shortening and sugar until fluffy. Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 7 Jan. 2025 Line an 8-inch square baking pan with aluminum foil and grease foil with either butter or vegetable shortening. Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
Jupiter is just a week past its annual opposition, which sees it at its brightest and best for 13 months as Earth gets in between it and the sun, shortening the distance. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 Gigs takes over that process, as well as customer service and tax calculation automation, Frank says, shortening the setup process to weeks and cutting costs. Lucinda Shen, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for shortening
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortening
Verb
  • Device lifecycle management and repair services will become increasingly important, reducing the amount of technology that ends up in landfills.
    Max Silber, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • State governments, as well as drug manufacturers, provide financial help to the uninsured, often reducing the cost of PrEP medicines to zero.
    James K. Glassman, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The name of the brand CDP is an abbreviation for Christine Dawn Pallister, her mother and mentor.
    Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Tory is another word for Conservative, and MP is an abbreviation of Member of Parliament.
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump had repeatedly hinted that a future peace deal would include Ukrainian territorial and political concessions and be twinned with the curtailment of U.S. aid to Kyiv.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In March, grid operators in California shut down 80 gigawatt-hours of the state’s renewable power because the grid couldn’t handle the afternoon solar surge; without more capacity to store power, even larger curtailments will occur.
    David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
Verb
  • The legislature’s actions curtailing the Ethics Commission have led Chaffee to rethink how her group wrote the initial ballot initiative.
    Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The National Institutes of Health agrees that curtailing these foods would be beneficial.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our crews have weathered a lot in recent years: a pandemic, two major strikes, a steep industry contraction and now the recent L.A. fires.
    Ed Lammi, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
  • The Hollywood slowdown hits a new generation Recent college graduates aspiring toward careers in TV and film writing struggle to see a path forward as studios continue post-strike contraction.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • The couple can be seen having a blast as Hart took the clippers and started trimming Wilkerson's beard in various ways, eventually splitting it into three long strands.
    Gil Macias, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Melissa Joan Hart is showing off her impressive beard-trimming skills!
    Gil Macias, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Participants will learn how to perform high-quality compressions on an adult, child and infant, use an automatic external defibrillator (AED) and aid someone who is choking.
    Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
  • As explained to us by Simon Newton, the director of vehicle performance, this iteration of the engine features cylinder heads, cam profiles, compression ratios, and turbos that have all been modified.
    Jonny Lieberman, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The firm sued, calling the order a violation of the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process - a requirement for the government to use a fair legal process.
    Mike Scarcella and David Thomas, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • The court later ruled that Congress’ efforts to impose similar limits with respect to noncitizens being detained at Guantanamo Bay under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were an unconstitutional abridgment of habeas corpus rights.
    Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Shortening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortening. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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