add better text truncation method #6966

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Lint	1m 2s
Build (20, frontend)	1m 33s
Build (20, test-app)	1m 22s
Test Deploy Build (20, frontend)	1m 45s
Build (20, lti-course-manager)	1m 11s
Test Deploy Build (20, lti-course-manager)	1m 13s
Build (20, lti-dashboard)	1m 12s
Test Deploy Build (20, lti-dashboard)	1m 7s
Test (20, frontend)	4m 34s
Test (20, test-app)	2m 20s
Test (20, lti-course-manager)	57s
Test (20, lti-dashboard)	1m 5s
Scan with UCSF SonarQube	0s
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