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as in truncated
to make less in extent or duration
we decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit
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Recent Examples of shortened
Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The flat face is a hallmark of brachycephaly, a structural abnormality where the skull is shortened, compressing the cat’s nasal passages.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In what’s becoming a trend this season, Malone shortened his rotation in the second half, with Gordon playing center again during Jokic’s rest.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2024
Your symptoms typically are lessened by having the flu shot, and the duration also can be shortened.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
Both coaches’ odds of winning the award shortened slightly from last week, with Tomlin moving from +550 to +450 and O’Connell shifting from +500 to +450.
—Ben Fawkes, The Athletic, 4 Dec. 2024
After a five-hour delay, the second practice session eventually got underway, but was shortened from 90 minutes to 60 minutes.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
The season was shortened by two weeks on the front and back end in 2020 as an effort to prevent overfishing.
—Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2024
Because of streaming, Hollywood has shortened the theatrical window, bringing movies to the home market much faster than before.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
Both are shortened versions of Dylan’s classics.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The flat face is a hallmark of brachycephaly, a structural abnormality where the skull is shortened, compressing the cat’s nasal passages.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
In what’s becoming a trend this season, Malone shortened his rotation in the second half, with Gordon playing center again during Jokic’s rest.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2024
Your symptoms typically are lessened by having the flu shot, and the duration also can be shortened.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
Both coaches’ odds of winning the award shortened slightly from last week, with Tomlin moving from +550 to +450 and O’Connell shifting from +500 to +450.
—Ben Fawkes, The Athletic, 4 Dec. 2024
After a five-hour delay, the second practice session eventually got underway, but was shortened from 90 minutes to 60 minutes.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
The season was shortened by two weeks on the front and back end in 2020 as an effort to prevent overfishing.
—Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2024
Because of streaming, Hollywood has shortened the theatrical window, bringing movies to the home market much faster than before.
—Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortened
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The first is one The Acolyte already tackled, albeit in an abbreviated way: What if the Jedi weren’t always virtuous, what if people with Force abilities aren’t so easily slotted into good or evil, and what if this society’s enshrinement of them is a massive cover-up?Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
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Take these three steps to move toward a more nimble and abbreviated procurement process: • Change your procurement process—from product identification to evaluation to selection to purchasing.Mark Tauschek, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In addition to those strategies, look for more colleges to tighten their financial belts in order bring expenses into line with what’s likely to be reduced revenue, particularly at those private institutions that depend heavily on tuition dollars to fund their operations.Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Furthermore, by increasing employee sentiment and utilization, vacancies and vacancy times are reduced, which ultimately improves the profitability of these spaces.Ryan Masiello, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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That's the abridged version of the tricky nature of prosecuting a murder case without a body.Fox News, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
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On Friday, Burrows, R-Lubbock, made public his request to Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee for an abridged video from a school hallway camera to be released.Dallas News, Dallas News, 11 July 2022
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These abolitionists argued that among the causes of prostitution were the social, economic, and political limitations that curtailed women’s opportunities in other spheres.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Western and Arab states, as well as Israel, would like to see Iran’s influence in Syria curtailed, but none wish for a radical Islamist regime to replace Assad.Mostafa Salem, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Kosher salt: Balances the sweetness that comes from the condensed milk and, partially, from the chocolate.Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
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In terms of both tone and information, Barbot packs a lot into a condensed container, and does it with an overall light touch.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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There are also far too many songs in A Complete Unknown—most are profoundly affecting, but a few ought to have been strategically trimmed.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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The hope is that NASA will use its limited budget to continue to fund this kind of research, but the worry is that as costs get trimmed with a focus on human exploration of the Moon and Mars, work that doesn’t have an obvious and immediate practical application will fall by the wayside.Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Shortened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortened. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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