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Recent Examples of lopBlades lop off body parts, while blunt force trauma breaks bones and bashes indentations in soft flesh.—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 There is a sense that if the jobs historically went to Democrats with a demographic that mimics the makeup of our country, the chainsaw lopped that department.—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025 The seemingly ever-present A-lister has graced magazine covers for three decades, her haircut spurring thousands of women to lop off their long locks in the '90s.—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 In addition to the full-size keyboard (the subject of this review), Razer also offers a smaller TKL variant ($199), with the number pad lopped off.—PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lop
Timing Tips For Trimming And Pruning Spring-flowering trees and shrubs should be pruned immediately after blooming to encourage more blooms for reblooming plants or to avoid cutting off buds that have set for next year’s blooms.
Although these easy-care plants are relatively flexible about pruning, cutting daylilies back at the wrong time potentially makes your plants bloom less next season and causes other problems, too.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Nov. 2025
Once Jeopardy's John Pork question was clipped for TikTok, users on the platform argued that the clue wasn't completely accurate, as John Pork appeared on social media as early as 2018, before generative AI was widely accessible.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
Melissa went on to tear through Cuba and the Bahamas before clipping Bermuda on its way out to sea.
In this conversation with Interesting Engineering, Elbasyouni reflects on his path from a curious kid who hacked radios to a leader in aerospace innovation, the lessons learned from startups and deep-space engineering, and the mindset needed to break through barriers, technical and otherwise.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
Shohei Ohtani, who had started the game on short rest and surrendered a three-run blast to Bo Bichette that put the Dodgers in a hole, hacked at a first-pitch cutter inside that Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base handled easily.
Their replacements, part of the Shenzhou-21 mission, successfully docked with the station on Saturday.
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Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
The process, which is necessary for Starship to reach distant destinations, is a complex one requiring two vehicles equipped with docking adapters to meet up in orbit to transfer hundreds of tons of super-cooled propellant.
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