Example Sentences

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You’d think that would be easier, given that almost all modern series have truncated seasons, down from the 20+ episodes that your average television season used to have before streaming outmoded that model.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025

As most of the data is in a fairly narrow range, we have truncated the vertical y-axis so that the detail can be seen more clearly.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2018

Indeed, in more recent years, I have truncated my first name to just "Jo" but then I generally then get mistaken for a girl: weird for a six foot, 17 stone black guy with dreadlocks!

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2012

History and contemporaneous memoirs have truncated, or badly related, or even omitted altogether, certain details of the arrival of the Emperor in Paris on March 20, 1815.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor