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Recent Examples of lopSenate Republicans are discussing staying in session through the weekend to complete work on nominations, with an eye toward lopping off work days at the end of next week and kicking off the recess by midweek.—Al Weaver, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025 The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff -- 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers.—Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2025 The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff — 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers.—Carla K. Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025 The Trump Administration could trim twigs from its org chart, or take an axe and lop off entire limbs, erasing whole offices.—David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lop
Each has flares of humor and surprise, but there is something cramped about them too, a sense of exhausted expectations, of a genre being pared down to a bundle of tropes.
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Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
University Endowment Tax The Senate bill significantly pares back the House’s plans to increase taxes on investment income generated by private university endowments.
In Paris, she was spotted in the black version with straight-leg jeans and a dual-toned coat; in New York, the model strutted around in this exact Light Gold shade, cropped leggings and leather bomber jacket in tow.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
25 June 2025
While many monitors can be rotated 90 degrees to become your vertical companion, not all will crop everything correctly.
But why veer toward meat sandwiches when many health-conscious people are cutting back.
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Gary Stern,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
And although his wife also works, her job has cut back her working hours at times, which has also affected the couple’s ability to pay bills to keep their family of 10 afloat.
This is the fourth flight of the crew Dragon, which will be bring up nearly 7,000 pounds of supplies, dock to the station 41 hours after launch and remain on the station for three weeks.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
But until the air leak detected on the laboratory's Russian segment is resolved, NASA has opted not to send any other people to dock at the station.
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