telescoped
Example Sentences
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But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2018
If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
