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Give it your declining heart-rate variability, shortened sleep, increased mileage and stressful Tuesday, and it can fashion a plausible story connecting them, even when the explanation remains uncertain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Mild cognitive impairment, often shortened to MCI, describes measurable problems with memory or thinking that are greater than expected with normal aging but do not necessarily interfere substantially with everyday life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Scrapping a law that could have shortened a man's prison sentence because he committed murder as a child was not a breach of human rights, the Supreme Court has ruled.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
It doesn’t get easier after a shortened bye week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Each pair would play a shortened set, where the first boy to win four games with a two-game advantage would win the set.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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