manicure

verb

Definition of manicurenext
as in to cut back

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Recent Examples of manicure Trim hedges and manicure any garden paths—especially the one that leads to the front door. — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 21 May 2026 The grounds are as manicured as a golf course, and the cabin clusters look like suburban subdivisions. — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026 These include vacuums that empty themselves, robot mops that scrub and even mowers that manicure your lawn without human intervention. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026 This gives ample time to properly manicure your nails before applying polish. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for manicure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manicure
  1. cut back
  2. dock
  3. trim
  4. hack
  5. prune
  6. clip
  7. crop
  8. pare
Verb
  • Buying Al Nassr would put RedBird at the center of Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar sports expansion, which had been on a tear before the government began cutting back on spending.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • That means choosing potassium-rich foods that support healthy blood pressure, like lentils and leafy greens, while cutting back on others that cardiologists recommend limiting.
    — Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of cut back
Verb
  • The process starts with a three-dimensional model of the binding site, into which the peptide is docked until the fit is precise, which Knight compares to a key in a lock.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
  • After rendezvous this morning, Dragon will autonomously dock to the zenith port on the station's Harmony module.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of dock
Verb
  • This year’s Democrats are making hard plays for northeast Ohio, at least to trim the GOP margins.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Amid the ongoing labor negotiations in baseball, which is widely expected to result in a work stoppage this winter, MLB agreed to trim the requirement to five years for players over 30 years old.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of trim
Verb
  • French authorities say the systems, made up of entire fleets of refrigerators and freezers throughout a store, were hacked.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In July, OpenAI agents hacked into AI company Hugging Face's servers.
    — Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of hack
Verb
  • 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
  • States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.
    — Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of prune
Verb
  • Jegadish clipped her smart phone to a headset and began chopping a carrot, her phone recording her every hand movement.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
  • It's quickly cleared of being a spotter concern, but Echevarrieta wants the video clipped just in case for later.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of clip
Verb
  • Soccer player and activist Megan Rapinoe is synonymous with her signature cropped pink hair.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Google says Auto frame can recompose a photo that is too tightly cropped or poorly framed.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of crop
Verb
  • Conservative lawyer Michael Edney cast the move in a long line of other attempts to pare back statutes from that era.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Featuring a sleek black column skirt and minimalist stilettos, the look, while pared-back, was far from boring thanks to a creamy sleeveless top with a voluminous feather-like hem.
    — Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of pare

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“Manicure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manicure. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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