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If you haven’t read the posts already, see how the night evolved, ending with the approval of all 18 proposed closings and 5 truncations.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2012
The problem with the version of the ad that actually aired is that the truncations remove all the subtlest, funniest, most rewarding moments.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2012
In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations of meaning, the Cantos might as well be Finnegans Wake as far as most readers are concerned.
From Time Magazine Archive
The purest concave forms, 1 and 2, were never decorated in the earliest times, except sometimes by an incision or rib down the centre of their truncations on the angles.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John
The colors, old gold, orange, vermilion, and green,—the forms, gentle curves and classical truncations, and all new and American, with a woodsy freshness and fragrance in them.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
