truncating
- present participle of truncate.
Example Sentences
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Outside of truncating his foreign travel, Mr. Biden also agreed to cut other congressional leaders out of the debt-limit negotiations and deal directly with the speaker.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2023
Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee, the Conservative Party’s parliamentary group, announced a sweeping change to the rules, truncating what is usually a two-month process.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
If a plasmid instructs E. coli to build the whole protein at once, the bacterium will avoid the production burden by removing or truncating the plasmid.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2021
In the realm of data visualization, the segment on misleading axes presents a chart titled “Is truncating the Y-axis misleading?”
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2017
This immense area may be regarded as an ancient peneplain truncating the bases of long-vanished mountains and dissected after elevation.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
