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lopped

verb

past tense of lop

as in pruned

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Airlines pruned schedules this year, which can mean fewer flights per day or week on a certain route.

— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026
Maintenance Pruning Aside from deadheading, peonies should not be pruned until fall unless their leaves die back and dry out with disease.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 31 July 2026

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Ohtani's two-run homer off Ryan Zeferjahn, his 26th, trimmed Chicago's lead to one.

— CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
For example, Mordor Intelligence notes in its Smart Cities Market Report that Singapore’s Smart Nation AI initiative has trimmed average commute times by 11 minutes thanks to a 92% accurate bus-crowding prediction model.

— Lee-Lean Shu, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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While Imax offers a variety of screen options, including digital versions of the 70 mm aspect ratio, these viewings are often cropped to fit the auditorium in which they are being shown.

— Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
The square-neck tank top is breezy and slightly cropped, while the wide-leg pants feature a comfy elastic waistband that the top is just long enough to hide.

— Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026

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The administration closed some of New Delhi’s rail transit lines and curtailed cellular connectivity.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Once the impact on overall ecosystems is curtailed as much as possible, the next step is trying to reduce collision risks.

— Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

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Sparkling yet simple, Gerber’s dress eschewed 1980s high glam for a look that was pared back yet still glamorous enough to evoke the decade.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 July 2026
Ashley Basile’s spare set—table and chairs, green couch—quietly evokes lives pared down to their bare essentials.

— Rhoda Feng, New Yorker, 24 July 2026

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OpenAI said models under evaluation helped an agent compromise Hugging Face’s production infrastructure; the Associated Press later reported that Anthropic also detected that its models hacked three organizations during their own cyber testing.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Human error led to Anthropic hacks In a blog post published on Thursday, Anthropic said that in three separate incidents in recent months, AI models undergoing testing of their cybercapabilities hacked into three unsuspecting companies.

— Huo Jingnan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026

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