Example Sentences

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“It truncates the closure of his character,” he told the Hollywood Reporter at the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023

This low carbon-use efficiency substantially truncates the CO2-fertilization effect.

From Nature • Apr. 7, 2020

In short, Fea’s individualist focus truncates his analysis repeatedly throughout his book, despite his clear understanding and concern for the importance of community.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2018

She truncates her home-town visit and dashes back to Romania to return to work, where she’s preparing a plan for an oil company to outsource labor and throw employees out of work.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2016

In these Cretaceous genera, toothed and toothless alike, the articulation for the upper arm bone truncates the extremity of the coracoid, so that the bone is less like that of a bird in this feature.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.