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Tomic’s would-be role models, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, also had truncated tournament debuts, though not for their lack of trying.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2017

The attrition of subsequent matter had truncated the great egg-shaped rock, and worn its sides into a striated face, whose scratches still indicated the line of water-flow.”

From The Ocean and its Wonders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)