telescoped

Example Sentences

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The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2022

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

The entire fifty-foot pedestal telescoped downward into a spiral staircase.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan