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shorten

[shawr-tn] / ˈʃɔr tn /


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The tool identified various combinations of factors such as pressure and temperature inside the drug’s manufacturing equipment that could be tweaked to shorten the process, said Scot Lindsey, senior vice president of manufacturing and quality.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Eccentric exercise focuses on the phase when muscles lengthen rather than shorten.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

She'd actually go further and ban short-form video altogether because "they shorten children's attention spans".

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

There was a machinery working to shorten his punishment.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

To shorten and adapt Wells’s novel, Koch cut its female characters.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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