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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

But the constitutional terrain would shift in one essential respect: Courts would no longer be permitted to truncate the narrative.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 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

"We shall continue to protect the peace and security of Sierra Leone against the forces that wish to truncate our much-cherished stability," Bio said in message posted on the president's X social media account.

From Reuters ● Nov. 26, 2023

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

In these Cretaceous genera, toothed and toothless alike, the articulation for the upper arm bone truncates the extremity of the coracoid, so that the bone is less like that of a bird in this feature.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley

Lithwick: Chase decided, in a very truncated opinion, that Turner’s apprenticeship violated the 13th Amendment’s prohibition of involuntary servitude and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 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

The impact for third-placed teams is greater in this truncated tournament, with no rest days before the knockout rounds begin.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

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

In a world where everyone wants to stay ahead of the truncating trend cycle, customization has become king, which makes the flavor-specificity of a refresher feel far more worth the money.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

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

So I was able to shake off that earlier fear of some final and irrevocable destruction truncating all my schemes.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells