On the day of the twenty-week sonogram, perhaps, you learn that your child has foreshortened limbs.

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The new law, according to the trustees, accounts for two of the seven foreshortened years.

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The brain gets disoriented trying to reconcile the difference between the distance to the image and the foreshortened viewing angle.

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He wore a goatee and was built like a bulldog, stocky, with foreshortened limbs and a rippling succession of necks.

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For venture capitalists, Google had a comparable return in foreshortened time.

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The wretchedness of its foreshortened life was left to the imagination.

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The foreshortened primary calendar, under which a decision may well be made by March 7th, when California and 11 other states hold their primary elections, leaves little time to build up momentum.

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Where else can you walk past a foreshortened version of the Eiffel Tower, straddling what looks like the Paris Opera, and think to yourself, compared to the pirate ship down the street that looks almost classy?

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