Thesaurus results for LOP

lop

verb

as in to prune

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Recent Examples of lop And at its climax, the Grabber, the franchise killer played by Ethan Hawke, gracefully stalks his victims on ice skates, ready to lop some heads with an axe. —

Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025 The Le Mans-winning car is known as the Ford GT40, which the car maker intended to use as the name of the Ford GT as well before rights issues forced the automaker to lop off the number. —

Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025 Blades lop off body parts, while blunt force trauma breaks bones and bashes indentations in soft flesh. —

Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 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 See All Example Sentences for lop

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Kirby told employees earlier in March that the airline is preparing for oil to stay above $100 a barrel through 2027 and is pruning some of its flights in the near term.

— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
When the tree grows large enough for its branches to contact the wires, utility crews are forced to prune them away for safety and to prevent power outages.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026