shorten
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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
Nevertheless, its previous clinical testing could shorten the path toward determining whether this new treatment strategy works in patients.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 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
“Will you look at that! Our youngest champion is quickest to get his egg! Well, this is going to shorten the odds on Mr. Potter!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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
The Kharg Island mission might make sense if it strikes a decisive blow that shortens the war and secures America’s strategic interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The urgency has grown as his career runway shortens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026
“The king shortens no man’s shadow, though he may try,” Estraven remarked, and the cook looked satisfied.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
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
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
The shortened school day didn’t bother some students.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
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
The founders’ objectives are clear: reducing onboarding costs, human-resources expense and employee-failure rates, while shortening the time recruits reach productivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
They kept shortening up the range to get closer and closer to us.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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