as in to shorten
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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Lewis likes to say his era — before the ground game was truncated by pass-heavy schemes — was the last of a dying breed.
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Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
The Stranger’s section feels truncated, for instance.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
In the time since, the freight forwarder has sought to truncate the network.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
The Stranger’s section feels truncated, for instance.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
In the time since, the freight forwarder has sought to truncate the network.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
See all Example Sentences for truncate
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“Truncate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truncate. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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