Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
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Sporadic blooms may open during summer with a few varieties, but these are often lost during pruning.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026 -
Harder tasks, like pruning and repotting plants, offer more money.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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Bangladesh has launched fresh measures to curb energy consumption, cutting office hours and trimming public spending as conflict in the Middle East disrupts global fuel markets and strains power supply in the South Asian nation.—
Max Burman,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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After trimming the board’s budget for 2026, Meta plans to further reduce funding in 2027 and 2028, and potentially stop paying for it entirely after that, Platformer reports.—
Jon Martindale,
PC Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
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Woods, 50, had to climb out of the passenger's side door of his Land Rover in the wake of the March 27 crash on Jupiter Island, because the car had flipped onto its side after clipping the trailer attached to a pickup truck driving in front of him, according to the arrest report.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Smart mowing tactics can eliminate clipping litter, too.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Apr. 2026
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Over more than 50 years, each new presidential administration has reassessed the place of spaceflight among its priorities, either encouraging or curtailing NASA’s efforts to return humans to the lunar surface.—
Emily A. Margolis,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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The closing of the Strait of Hormuz to tanker traffic and attacks on energy sites across the Gulf are curtailing supplies and driving up the prices of key global commodities.—
Robert Tuttle,
Bloomberg,
20 Mar. 2026
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Aluminum prices surged to four-year highs earlier this month before paring some of those gains.—
Garrett Downs,Azhar Sukri,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
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Treasury yields, which rise when bonds fall, moved higher before paring gains.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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Another feature of the exhibit showcases photos with editorial marks on cropping and how the photographs were used to record major events and everyday life in Black communities.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2026
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The results indicate that techniques such as cropping images so models focus their attention on relevant regions and applying reinforcement learning for reasoning can minimize hallucinations in VLMs.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2026
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The promise of automating out the drudgery of work and home by hacking together armies of agents feels so tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach.—
Sumeet Vaidya,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Unlike other crimes that use hacking or social engineering scams to access victims’ funds remotely, wrench attacks rely on more brutish methods of coercion like kidnapping and torture.—
Megan Cassidy,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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Tired of the nipping Chihuahuas’ defense against him, Jokic let the official have it early on, getting a technical.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Mar. 2026
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After all, new talents are constantly emerging and during their hiatus have begun nipping at their heels.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Lopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopping. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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