cropping

verb

present participle of crop
1
as in growing
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care a family that's been cropping potatoes on that piece of land for generations

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2
as in shaving
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument grass cropped short by repeated grazing cropped the painting to fit the frame

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Recent Examples of cropping The photo editing tools are also limited to basic actions like cropping and rotating. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026 Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark. — ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026 Although some breeders recommend tail docking and ear cropping for medical reasons, these claims have not been substantiated; the procedures are purely aesthetic. — Jane Sykes, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2026 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 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, 29 Jan. 2026 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 This not only sets a new video specification benchmark for 360° cameras but also provides ample room for post-cropping and creative editing with its higher resolution. — New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025 As a corn plant grows, the leaves unroll to reveal the tassel, the part that sheds pollen, explained Mark Licht, an associate professor of agronomy and an extension cropping systems specialist at Iowa State University. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cropping
  1. growing
  2. shaving
  3. cultivating
  4. cutting
  5. planting
  6. trimming
  7. harvesting
  8. clipping
Verb
  • China has deployed troops alongside Russian forces for a large multinational military exercise that Moscow says incorporates lessons from the war in Ukraine, including the growing role of drones, electronic warfare and unmanned ground systems.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Some experts point to worsening public health since the 2008 financial crisis, citing factors such as growing obesity, long hospital waiting times, the cost-of-living crisis and other social causes.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of growing
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  • After finally shaving his beard off, Colbert concluded the interview by gifting Kimmel something special from his show.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Colbert had no hesitation about taking the tool to his facial hair, shaving it off and returning to his recognizable clean-shaven look.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of shaving
Verb
  • The Justice Department also says Beijing is determined to sway American public opinion in its favor by cultivating relationships with political figures seen as having access to the levers of power.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Community organizations spent decades cultivating wealthy baby boomer donors, and so that connection fades with each generation removed from the original donors.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of cultivating
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  • This change is apparent in the fact that European governments, too, are cutting funding for religious freedom advocacy.
    — Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In a sign of growing staff unrest over the steady stream of cost-cutting announcements across the BBC, some workers made their feelings known on a Microsoft Teams call earlier this week.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of cutting
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  • Ronald Watts, accused of planting evidence to frame hundreds of men.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have sent fertilizer costs soaring, just as farmers pay higher interest rates on the loans needed to get from planting to harvest season.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of planting
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  • But while the wider economy has come under pressure, with inflation hovering above 4% and the government trimming its economic growth forecasts, Brazil has also been an economic beneficiary of higher oil prices as a net oil exporter.
    — Chloe Taylor,Thomas Da Graca Barlow, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The hair architect responsible for trimming Lawrence’s texture on Tuesday has not yet been revealed.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of trimming
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  • My friend, however, is harvesting black widow spider eggs and putting the egg sacs in her freezer.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Given Apple's value proposition as the only big name in tech not dependent on harvesting your data, its AI implementation depends on on-device processing.
    — Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of harvesting
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  • Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The sequence stylistically excises itself from the episode as though clipping it, anticipating its excision from the show when uploaded to a video-sharing platform.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of clipping

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“Cropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cropping. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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