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shorten

[shawr-tn] / ˈʃɔr tn /


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“This shift will also reduce competing rail traffic and shorten potential weather-related delays for other carriers, including Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and freight trains, that operate along the beachfront corridor near San Clemente.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Speedier installations shorten the period during which customers incur data center expenses without generating revenue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

She also wrote: "Nobody wants to shorten life, just to shorten death."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The disease can also lower crop yields and shorten shelf life, making it a costly challenge for mushroom farms across the United States.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Happily, there are tables and good approximations which can be used to shorten these calculations.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The results therefore do not show that taking a tyrosine supplement shortens lifespan.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The problem, Shurety points out, is that longer fire seasons and more rain during cooler months shortens the window that such burns can be carried out.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Slicing the chicken speeds up the flavor exchange and shortens the cook time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

That approach shortens supply chains, satisfies local regulations, and stabilizes market access.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Going downhill, she shortens her step, keeps centered, not leaning forward.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Warsh has already shortened statements and news conferences, stopped submitting forecasts and launched five task forces to rethink how the Fed operates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Laevo-mandelonitrile-beta-diglucoside had been around since about 1950, thanks to a father-and-son team in California: Ernst T. Krebs Sr. and Jr. It was Krebs Jr. who shortened the name of the apricot-extract concoction to laetrile.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

The impact blasted debris as far as 10,000 kilometers into space and shortened the asteroid's orbital period around Didymos by roughly 33 minutes.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Formula 1 grands prix will return to their standard distance in 2028 after the maximum length was shortened for next season.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

As the hoofbeats grew nearer, she pulled her sun- bonnet farther down over her face and shortened the length of her steps, edging over to the side of the narrow road, hitching along.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

It would change the state’s landmark environmental review process, the California Environmental Quality Act, by shortening deadlines and permitting rules for public and private development projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

WIPO, the UN patent and innovation agency, said AI was shortening the paths of discovery and fuelling much of the world's economic growth.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

One phrase highlighted in her research is "incompetent cervix" used to describe the shortening of the cervix that can increase risks of pregnancy loss and early birth.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

But it advised against shortening the time to a degree to three years or leaning in to online education, and instead suggested establishing a task force to develop a new tuition model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The days were shortening into winter, and dusk came soon.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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