excising

Definition of excisingnext
present participle of excise
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Verb
  • The good news is that AI tokens might just replace a lot of the software Newsom wants to start taxing.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
  • Bottlenecked by energy infrastructure from as far back as World War II, tech companies are looking for extraterrestrial arenas to build out data centers without taxing available resources.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Allow these to regrow and form new plants after removing all the dead.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026
  • On Saturday, that included removing Jake LaRavia from the rotation entirely as rookie forward Adou Thiero became the Lakers’ third player off the bench and veteran big man Maxi Kleber moved into the rotation as the ninth option.
    Benjamin Royer, Oc Register, 10 May 2026
Verb
  • The momos at this Nepali hangout are imposing and as wrinkly as shar-peis.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • For the bulk of the armed forces, their main purpose has been preventing war by looking imposing rather than winning wars by fighting.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
Verb
  • And a system that works for Californians instead of extracting from them.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • That lets the term be understood in a range of ways, whether a corporate-friendly approach to conservation, or a new way to talk about extracting marine resources, sustainably or otherwise.
    Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 3 May 2026
Verb
  • Investors began penalizing layoff announcements rather than rewarding them.
    Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Lively demanded a sweeping financial judgment that includes attorneys’ fees, triple damages for alleged harm and punitive damages aimed at penalizing what her attorneys described as an abuse of the legal system.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Trump has also floated the possibility of withdrawing from NATO and threatened to pull troops from Germany, Italy, and Spain.
    Tiago Ventura, Time, 8 May 2026
  • Trump’s Gaza plan, which Israel and ⁠Hamas agreed to in October, involves Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza and reconstruction starting as Hamas lays down its weapons.
    Reuters, NBC news, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • Companies are publicly assessing employees by token use, with both too high and too low values generating concern.
    Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • Doctors will determine how long the quarantine will last after assessing the passengers.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • Essentially, yanking gravity away is another tool, just like temperature or pressure, that drug manufacturers can apply to improve their products.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
  • Now, the Sentinel has learned, Florida is taking an inconsistent approach to cleaning up its mess, yanking the licenses of 47 nurses who attended schools cited by the FBI but allowing others to keep working, even when it has been alerted to their shortcomings.
    Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
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“Excising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excising. Accessed 16 May. 2026.

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