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The improvements reflect NASA's broader effort to strengthen its internal engineering capabilities, shorten development schedules, and reduce the cost of preparing missions for launch.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

It has been establishing alternative routes to shorten the time it takes to deliver vehicles to customers in the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“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

The line moves pretty quickly, but it also doesn’t seem like it’s gonna shorten anytime soon.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Their method dramatically shortens the processing required after a restoration comes out of the printer.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

That window shortens to one hour if air conditioning fails during summer heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

The urgency has grown as his career runway shortens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

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

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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 site also considered affordability, data centre, odyssey, and the shortened form of uncle, "unc", as potential words of the year.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Staphylococcus aureus, often shortened to S. aureus, is particularly important in modern medicine because it can cause serious infections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

President Lee Jae Myung hailed the successful voyage, saying it "shortened the one-way sailing time by 10 days compared with the conventional route via the Suez Canal".

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Besides the workday was lightened and shortened by moments of fun, by words of praise like those of Ben’s, by the endless wonder and beauty of the woods.

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

Both measures can lower costs by shortening shipping distances and reducing packaging, making it even harder to determine how much of the savings comes from newer AI systems.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton had previously objected to the shortening of race distances.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Higher temperatures were shortening the lucrative winter season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"She is fine," she said, shortening her leash and laying the shopping bag down on the floor.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg