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foreshorten

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See: abridge, condense


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It's all very well, up to a point, to foreshorten and oversimplify your opponent's position in order to heighten your own rhetorical pizzazz and percussiveness.
Should it issue such a decision, the British government would then have to decide what to do: to release Megrahi or to foreshorten his life sentence.
Her multiple-period awareness gives added substance to MacDonald's insistence that "[sleeking to recover black women entirely from within slavery inaccurately foreshortens what might be termed their representational presence in the west" (16).
 
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