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Social media and shortform video have pushed everything from music to documentaries into a race to truncate their lengths and make everything bite-size, in order to bend to the current of algorithm-centric audiences.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

When price caps truncate the payoff window, many of their projects never get financed or are abandoned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

It said that "maybe for the best of intentions, it led the Commission to truncate her evidence," adding: "That appears to have prevented her from completing her account."

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

“In order to do a new rule or undo an old rule, you still have to go through the rulemaking process. I suspect they’re going to try to truncate that in some way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024

He pointed out that it was relatively easy to pronounce, though there was the danger that Americans, obsessed with abbreviation, would truncate it to Nick.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

“It truncates the closure of his character,” he told the Hollywood Reporter at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

This low carbon-use efficiency substantially truncates the CO2-fertilization effect.

From Nature ● Apr. 7, 2020

In short, Fea’s individualist focus truncates his analysis repeatedly throughout his book, despite his clear understanding and concern for the importance of community.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018

She truncates her home-town visit and dashes back to Romania to return to work, where she’s preparing a plan for an oil company to outsource labor and throw employees out of work.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2016

An inner circle struck through the intersections of the circles by the tangents, truncates the cusps.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

And that’s not greatly practical for smartphone devotees, who are already getting a truncated image of one weather possibility that was sent before the model was scheduled to refresh.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

The minutes were shorter but not as terse as some economists feared, though some of the description of the discussions seemed truncated.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

We expect exchanges will be under significant pressure to add so-called zero-dated options, whose truncated expiration cycles enable investors to bet on daily stock swings.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Richardson also said: "It should not have been done, it was not requested, it is unclear why it did happen, but as a result of that, the imprint was truncated off the bottom."

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

From there we watch as people dressed like snowflakes, like elves, like rabbits, like sugar plum fairies, march past us, strangely truncated because we’re looking down on them.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

There had been talk of truncating the torch relay given the risks, but organizers decided to plow on with the event, which is sponsored by companies such as Coca-Cola and Toyota.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021

On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would be truncating the nation’s flagship public high-speed rail project, the train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, to run between….

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2019

With his severe ankle sprain from last season’s playoffs lingering into the summer and truncating his workout time, his explosiveness is still lacking.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 3, 2017

In the realm of data visualization, the segment on misleading axes presents a chart titled “Is truncating the Y-axis misleading?”

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2017

"Runcorn hadn't cigars like these," he said, truncating one lovingly.

From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells