Example Sentences

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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

A spokesman for the committee acknowledged truncating the text and apologized for doing so.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 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

With his severe ankle sprain from last season’s playoffs lingering into the summer and truncating his workout time, his explosiveness is still lacking.

From Washington Times • Dec. 3, 2017

It was as though there were in them two contradictory things: an inconsistent character, believing in nothing, and discursive Reason, intent on truncating, mowing down, and crushing life, without regard for anything.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert