as in shortening
to make less in extent or duration
some of the quotations from the movie had to be truncated to fit on tie-in products
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Recent Examples of truncating
The longtime illusion of a mainstream industry involved truncating both ends of the bell curve, the radical and the mercenary.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truncating
shortening
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In the surgical procedure, a v-shape of the lower lid is removed thereby shortening the area and reducing the defect.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Part of that vision includes increasing how often NASA launches Artemis' Space Launch System (SLS) rocket — with the goal of shortening the gap between missions from a few years to about 10 months.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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“Truncating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truncating. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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