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lopped

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past tense of lop

as in pruned

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But this year the shrub and tree forms, pruned and unpruned, are full of colorful clusters of blooms.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2026
Scott adds that climbing roses should be fertilized in the spring and pruned in late winter.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026

Definition of pruned

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Newsom trimmed California’s initial commitment to local newsrooms in the program’s first year from $100 million, with $55 million coming from Google, to $10 million, from the state and Google each, in response to budgetary constraints.

— Evelyn Ronan, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
Bernstein even trimmed it to Market Perform recently on some near-term demand caution.

— Todd Gordon, CNBC, 14 July 2026

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One of my close friends uses the bag as his central hub for climbing with all of his gear inside and extras clipped onto the outside.

— Jack Collins, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2026
Grohl stands in the middle of this, hair clipped up, split-toe black flats, oversized pants — no stage costume or visible armor.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 6 July 2026

Definition of clipped

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First, the taller IMAX image will likely be cropped at the top and bottom later for wider non-IMAX screens, so keeping things centered helps ensure important visual information is not cropped out.

— Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026
The straps are adjustable and the legs are slightly cropped, too.

— Olivia Dubyak, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

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But the dramatic cut in drug production was also due in part to farmers being given alternative crops to the cultivation of opium poppies, De Croo said, noting that funding for such programs had been severely curtailed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
But under Moynihan, Bank of America curtailed that line of business just as financing clients became a major revenue driver for its peers.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of curtailed

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The firm portfolio exposure to China has been pared down in recent years, from 24% in 2016 to 2026′s figure of 17%.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 8 July 2026
Room décor varies, but many have a Tara Plantation-meets-Montepulciano thing going on, occasionally excessive but mostly pared back—think overstuffed chairs, frilly, floral curtains, exposed wood beam ceilings, and slim wooden furniture.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026

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Ridley, who won an Oscar for writing 12 Years a Slave, doesn’t hold back on some of his favorites of the year – one about a man who hacked into the telephone system using his voice, and another about an iconic actor who recently turned 90.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 July 2026
Stokes allegedly hacked an unnamed luxury jewelry retailer in May 2025 while using a VPN.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026

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Celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission, specifically the splashdown and recovery of the astronauts by the USS Hornet, now a floating museum docked in Alameda.

— Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Visitors can now see 60 ships representing 20 countries docked across Boston.

— Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 13 July 2026

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