Reader-hostile trailing fragments after the last comma — when the word-boundary truncate cuts a list mid-item like "Sweden's Riksdag closed the week with security, tax authority" the trailing tax authority is a bare noun phrase with no verb / predicate and reads as a stub. Step back to the segment before the last comma so the title ends on a complete clause.
Conservative: only triggers when
there is a comma in the cut, AND
the tail (text after the last comma) is short (≤ 30 chars) AND contains 1–4 words AND has no trailing punctuation, AND
the preceding segment is itself substantive (≥ 25 chars after trim), so we never strip a title down to a meaningless fragment.
Live cases (audit 2026-05-25):
"Swedish Riksdag closed the week of 22 May 2026 with a substantial legislative harvest spanning national security, tax authority…" → cuts to "… spanning national security…" (drops tax authority).
"Twenty interpellations filed in the 2025/26 riksmöte crystallise the opposition's pre-election accountability offensive, the…" → cuts before the trailing comma.
Reader-hostile trailing fragments after the last comma — when the word-boundary truncate cuts a list mid-item like "Sweden's Riksdag closed the week with security, tax authority" the trailing
tax authorityis a bare noun phrase with no verb / predicate and reads as a stub. Step back to the segment before the last comma so the title ends on a complete clause.Conservative: only triggers when
Live cases (audit 2026-05-25):
tax authority).Pure function — exported only for testability.