telescoping
- present participle of telescope.
Example Sentences
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For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Then we step forward — you can think of telescoping in on finer and finer timescales — we get from the billion year timescale to the hundreds of millions year timescale.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023
And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
