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Senate 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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lop
Verb
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Others will spread into a shrub-like habit unless pruned.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
13 June 2025
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Standout deals include a carbon steel trowel, a 20-pack of nursery plant pots under $20, and a durable pair of pruning gloves.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 June 2025
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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.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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University Endowment Tax The Senate bill significantly pares back the House’s plans to increase taxes on investment income generated by private university endowments.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 June 2025
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There had been rumors that Brown could be traded this offseason, as the Celtics continue to trim a significant amount of money off their books.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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The Pacers showed their trademark determination and never quit, trimming the deficit down to 10 points with two-and-a-half minutes left.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
23 June 2025
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While many monitors can be rotated 90 degrees to become your vertical companion, not all will crop everything correctly.—
Luke Larsen,
Wired News,
25 June 2025
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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.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
25 June 2025
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Pinch-hitter Jose Tabata fouled off a pair of 2-2 pitches before Scherzer clipped him on the elbow with a breaking ball.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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In one snap, the proud mom can be seen sitting in a pair of pajamas with her hair halfway clipped up as Santi sits on her lap, smiling at the camera.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
19 June 2025
Verb
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But why veer toward meat sandwiches when many health-conscious people are cutting back.—
Gary Stern,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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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.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
23 June 2025
Verb
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Pornography users are likely to be reluctant to submit their ID to a site like Pornhub, for example, out of fear that the website will be hacked.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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Bellini noted that hacking operations are much cheaper than bullets, planes or nuclear arms — what defense analysts call kinetic warfare.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
25 June 2025
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The four commercial astronauts rocketed into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and their Dragon capsule docked at the space station Thursday to kick off a two-week stay.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 June 2025
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The Dragon will dock with the ISS at approximately 7 a.m. EDT on Thursday.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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“Lop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lop. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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