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lopped

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past tense of lop

as in pruned

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However, some plants need their foliage for protection over the winter and should instead be pruned in the spring.

— Marie Iannotti, The Spruce, 22 Sep. 2026
Climbing Roses Climbing roses should not be pruned in the fall except to remove broken branches.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026

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Throw on an oversize black pantsuit, add a filament-thin chain at the waist and let your untucked shirt, trimmed with a random assortment of little baubles, peek out at the bottom.

— Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Ng trimmed his price target to $140 per share from $144, but said Disney is too compelling to ignore at current levels.

— Michael Bloom, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

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Her shrunken two-piece skirt suit—the jacket cropped to reveal her abs, the skirt extra-mini—perfectly encapsulated the cartoonish silhouette that Barbie so often rocks.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
But then, on the day, someone cropped the photo on the phone to be just her.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

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Still, major oil producers including Shell, Chevron and BP have evacuated non-essential personnel from oil platforms in the Gulf and curtailed production.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
The kingdom, the world’s top oil exporter, has seen oil and military assets targeted in recent days, posing a threat to crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has been curtailed due to the Iran war.

— Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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Trust took another nosedive when OpenAI’s agents attacked Hugging Face this summer and, in a world-first, a rogue model hacked the Australian Government’s website.

— Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, had recently disclosed astonishing details about how its artificial intelligence agents had broken out of their systems, hacked into another company and tried to cover their tracks.

— Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

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Running back Kenneth Walker was fined $8,000 by the NFL for throwing the ball out of the end zone in the Chiefs’ season opener against the Denver Broncos, and guard Trey Smith was docked $6,750 for a chop block in that game.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
Electric tugs docked alongside an LNG carrier being loaded at the LNG Canada docks in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada, on Monday, July 14, 2025.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

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