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Recent Examples of lop
Participants at the September meeting indicated the likelihood of two more moves coming this year, though Miran favored an approach that would lop a total 1.25 percentage points off the fed funds rate by the end of 2025.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 16 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
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 16 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lop
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Evergreens To Prune In Late Winter Late winter is a good time to prune most evergreens, especially summer and fall bloomers like abelias, gardenias, and sasanqua camellias.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
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Here, our experts break down which trees must be pruned during this period of deep dormancy—along with some best practices to follow.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
21 Feb. 2026
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Peter Sarsgaard pared back his black and white suit, while his wife, filmmaker and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, wore a look from McQueen’s pre-fall 2015 collection.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Evening functions called for something smaller and more contained, often pared down to a small clutch or simple wallet.—
Julia Rabinowitsch,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2026
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The jersey also includes a jock tag depicting a dove carrying an olive branch, while the Pride’s familiar purple trims the collar, cuffs and player lettering.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2026
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Cheese quesadillas are sliced into inch-long planks, crusts are trimmed off sandwiches to stave off a potential meltdown, and even grapes are halved.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 Feb. 2026
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This buttery-smooth two-piece set includes a cap-sleeve, V-neck top with front button accents that give it a feminine touch, while the high-waisted, cropped wide-leg pants offer a flowy, relaxed, and casual fit.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
19 Feb. 2026
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Other slides included images of the model and Gavras cropped together.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
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Shiffrin was in the back of the start house when Duerr, skiing next to last on the second run, clipped the very first gate and crashed out.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Nadim had just finished praying at the nearby Dawood Mosque when the truck driver clipped him, a friend of Nadim’s told Urdu News.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Plants are normally cut back one-third to one-half their height.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2026
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Farrington cut back to evade two defenders and then slipped a shot from the center of the area inside the right post to give Dallas a 2-1 lead in the 38th minute.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Speaking to the officers, Colt denied making the post and said his Discord account had been hacked, according to the footage.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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Verify or cancel a subscription by independently contacting the company via its official channels and reach out to the Attorney General’s Office for help with locked or hacked accounts.—
Lee Rood,
Des Moines Register,
20 Feb. 2026
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Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on February 25, 2026.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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To the right of the photo, the Cygnus-23 cargo craft is docked at the space station's Unity module.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Lop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lop. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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