Thesaurus results for LOPPING

lopping

verb

present participle of lop

as in pruning

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Big companies like UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and others are chasing higher profits by pruning benefits, after investors grew dissatisfied with margins that were smaller than the insurers had promised.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
Pruning ‘Kaleidoscope’ Abelia ‘Kaleidoscope’ Abelia naturally develops a low mounding crown that requires little pruning to maintain.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2026

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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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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

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It has been well established that company scientists at Exxon and other fossil fuel companies accurately predicted global temperature increases and warned that sharply curtailing fossil fuels was the only way to avoid severe warming.

— Patrick Parenteau, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
India passed legislation curtailing online wagers last year, spoiling the value of gaming powerhouse Junglee after Flutter had paid $237 million to acquire 95% of the company looking to gain a foothold in the world’s most populated country.

— Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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Since their debut in 1986, American Girl has shrunk their historical line significantly–including paring down the traditional six-book set for each historical character into two streamlined texts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Boeing shares were up as much as 3% in premarket trading before paring back some of those gains.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026

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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, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

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OpenAI reported that the agents used unauthorized communication channels, exploited vulnerabilities and engaged in reward hacking.

— Babajide Ojuola, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
His comments come as OpenAI models have been involved in multiple security incidents in which agentic tools have overreached, hacking other companies and even government websites.

— James Peckham, PC Magazine, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hacking

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Across the fashion week map this season, chic showgoers made slouchy leather jackets the crux of their street style looks, while models nipping between casting calls threw their own bikers over basics on the run.

— Christina Holevas, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
This is an issue that, to my mind, keeps nipping at the heels of the current crop of directorial It Boys.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026

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