excising

present participle of excise

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Verb
  • Here’s why Jackson County has been taken to court over property valuations, and what both residents and taxing jurisdictions hope to gain through the legal process.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • In 1764, the British Parliament began taxing foreign molasses and prohibiting the import of foreign rum.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Crews are focusing on the 15 feet along the roadsides, trimming trees that are still alive to help prevent fire from laddering into the crowns and removing dead trees.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • In fact, according to Rakestraw, one of the biggest mistakes homeowners make is assuming the babies have been abandoned and removing them immediately.
    Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • Incumbents have run on the perception that the transplants who have moved into working-class neighborhoods are pushing residents out while imposing their politics on more moderate communities of color.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • The building should be the most beautiful and imposing structure in the entire state.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • Designed for all ages, the fair features activities and games rooted in science, technology, engineering, and math—from discovering native plants to extracting DNA from apricots and exploring robotics.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 21 June 2026
  • The agreement appears to offer Iran several benefits up front while extracting little in return.
    Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • The sheriff’s office said the incidents in question proved that internal checks strengthened by court orders were working properly, and that the monitor was penalizing the department for following those orders and policies.
    Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
  • Missing the green was brutally penalizing, as well.
    Justin Ray, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • While conventional wisdom had long been that consumers should build up a certain level of savings — six months' worth of living expenses, for example — those who study the accounts now consider saving to be a dynamic process of paying in, withdrawing, and then replenishing.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • The military held a similar security strip from 1985 until 2000, before withdrawing after years of steady casualties, a toll that is accumulating once again.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • His Five Forces framework—competitive rivalry, new entrants, substitutes, buyer power and supplier power—became the definitive lens for assessing whether an industry is worth entering.
    Peter Su, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Jay Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, is assessing the debt risk based on each individual company, not the sector as a whole.
    Kate Rooney, CNBC, 20 June 2026
Verb
  • Keep the movement coming from your ribs, rotating, not by yanking your neck.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 23 June 2026
  • Counsell admitted postgame that yanking Imanaga might not have been the right move.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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“Excising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excising. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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