as in abridgement
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as in reducing
to make less in extent or duration
we decided to shorten the distance we had to walk home by cutting across the neighbor's lawn if Grandma has to go shopping today, you'll need to shorten your visit
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Recent Examples of shortening
Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 31 Oct. 2024
Besides the pitching edge, the Dodgers’ hitters are raking, with two home runs from Andy Pages and another long ball from Mookie Betts, nine hits and a brief shortening of a 10-2 deficit.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Team members commit to making positive change such as shortening their default meeting duration to create buffer time, but then lose their will when no one else follows suit.
—Shani Harmon, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Scatter the shortening over the top and process until the mixture resembles coarse cornmeal, about 10 seconds.
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The last took place in 2012-13, shortening that season to 48 games.
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Verb
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Trekking poles, like the Cascade Mountain Lightweight Aircraft-Grade Aluminum Trekking Poles that are on sale for $25, offer stability on uneven terrain, reducing strain on joints.Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2024
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The states had argued that the new rule will impose weighty costs and risk destabilizing the nation's power grids without any quantifiable public health benefit for reducing emissions of hazardous air pollutants.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
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The pages are covered with private abbreviations, mysterious drawings of circles and triangles in a range of configurations, phrases and bullet lists of words with no obvious connection: magic, virtues, initiation, rebirth, evil, success.Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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Its notifications, which follow a format established in 1924, are written in ALL CAPS and filled with cryptic abbreviations.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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Any curtailment of this demand to reduce carbon emissions was initially perceived by the American military as a perilous intrusion by policymakers.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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However, a provision in the drafted groundwater permit states that Mirasol would have to abide by a drought curtailment.Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Feb. 2024
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Beating conservative guidance : Any uptick in the economy would help keep Linde’s under-promise, over-deliver run intact as management issued a fourth-quarter outlook assuming an economic contraction.Paulina Likos, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
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One of the lines was peaking constantly—a sign, Ogburn said, that the mother was in the middle of contractions.Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Other cost-saving opportunities may come from trimming benefits.Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The hushed hallways are dim and gilded, with black gold-veined marble trimming each room’s vestibule and dramatic floral displays punctuating the elevator landings.Laura Ratliff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
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Its compression and massage features are designed to relax you into a restful sleep.Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Made with a German polycarbonate shell, each of the suitcases in the set is designed with 360-degree double-spinner wheels, a 20-height multi-stop telescopic handle, and a Y-strap compression system.Lydia Mansel, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
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Thanks to CDs, and especially streaming, abridgments are now comparatively rare.Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
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Soon enough, other companies and products entered the field for better (Recorded Books) or worse (abridgments).Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
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Unfortunately, many of the techniques and procedures for compaction tend to lose something along the way, namely that the SLM is often less capable than the bigger brethren LLM.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Doing so would risk compaction and structural damage, which is hard to come back from.Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Shortening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shortening. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.
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