shorten
Example Sentences
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Eccentric exercise focuses on the phase when muscles lengthen rather than shorten.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
It also allowed them to shorten a movie that originally took more than three hours to cover the early days of the Jackson 5 through Jackson’s late career, yet still felt rushed, according to Fogelson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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
At times he wishes he could disguise it, shorten it somehow, the way the other Indian boy in his school, Jayadev, had gotten people to call him Jay.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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