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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
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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
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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
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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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