Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

has telescoped

  • present perfect
    of telescope (3rd person singular).
    telescope
    noun
    an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms refracting telescope, or refractor consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form reflecting telescope, or reflector has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without art enough to point its outlines.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Whiting phrases it, he has "telescoped" the sonata form.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes