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lopped

verb

past tense of lop

as in pruned

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If desired, Meyer lemons can also be pruned in late winter to early spring to refine their shrubby look into a more tree-like appearance.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 16 Oct. 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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When Cleveland trimmed the lead to 3-1 in the sixth inning, Tampa answered with a two-run homer by Junior Caminero in the seventh.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026
Brunet trimmed the Ducks’ lead with his first goal early in the second, connecting on a power play in the 23-year-old defenseman’s sixth NHL game.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

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That was the dynamic that Hyde-Smith, a cattle rancher and former state agriculture commissioner, was addressing in her interview that was clipped in Colom’s video.

— Nicholas Riccardi, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
That was the dynamic that Hyde-Smith, a cattle rancher and former state agriculture commissioner, was addressing in her interview that was clipped in Colom's video.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

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Google says Auto frame can recompose a photo that is too tightly cropped or poorly framed.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
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

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Energy drove a sizable chunk of those increases as the Middle East conflict curtailed oil supply and sent prices surging.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
If technical failures or damage to launch infrastructure were to interrupt SpaceX’s operations, the United States’ ability to launch satellites would be severely curtailed.

— Kathleen Curlee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2026

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The stock pared its losses after the bank hiked its net interest income guidance for 2026.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Elsewhere, typically experimental designer Duran Lantink pared back his characteristically whackadoodle approach to design for a smarter compromise this season.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Reading their own statement about having never been hacked through a Flock camera and then downloading it on my own machine made that indisputable.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

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Earlier testing included evaluations while ships were docked and at sea.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Jessica Martinez was welcomed home by cheering crowds as the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in San Diego earlier this month after a long wartime deployment to the Middle East.

— Norma Galeana, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026

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