Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
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Why to Prune Viburnums Viburnums seldom need pruning other than to remove damaged, diseased, and dead branches, or sucker shoots that grow straight up from the roots but don’t flower.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Feb. 2026 -
Plants maintain an attractive pyramidal form without the need for pruning.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 Feb. 2026
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And that unease is worth keeping in mind for business leaders considering trimming the payroll.—
Claire Zillman,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Shut the water while trimming the unwanted hair.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Reviews from most of the out-of-town papers mostly arrived courtesy of the clipping service.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Vonn lost control within moments of leaving the start house, clipping a gate with her right shoulder and pinwheeling down the slope before ending up awkwardly on her back, her skis crisscrossed below her and her screams ringing out soon after medical personnel arrived.—
ANDREW DAMPF,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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In June 2023, the court held that race-conscious admissions programs violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, effectively curtailing the consideration of race in colleges nationwide.—
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Feb. 2026
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Asking the closest thing the country has to a national theater to concentrate on its earnings endangers any art form with a small audience, while also curtailing ways that such an audience might grow.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Gold and silver prices rose after paring bigger, early gains.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX, was up 10%, paring gains after soaring as much as 25%.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 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 last family photo features less of the family, with Kardashian cropping it so that most of her face and all of Barker’s is out of view.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
30 Nov. 2025
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Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg had decided in 2007 that Facebook needed to take on Microsoft and become a powerful enterprise app, instead of growth-hacking his way to taking over the internet.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Born blind and hungry for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and modern technology.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the film previously believed to be this year’s best-picture front-runner, is nipping at Sinners’ heels with 13 nominations of its own.—
Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
22 Jan. 2026
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Be right back, just nipping to the hospital to ask about these hives.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Lopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopping. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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