lopped

past tense of lop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopped
Verb
  • The fence corners are clean, so are the ditches, and the fruit trees have been pruned and sprayed.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • When experiences don’t occur, that particular set of connections won’t be made, because neurons that aren’t seeing any action get pruned away to keep our brains working efficiently.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of footwear maker Deckers Brands plunged 15% Friday after the company trimmed its sales guidance for Hoka and Ugg — the two brands driving its growth — over concerns that tariffs are leading to a slide in demand.
    Luke Fountain, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Walmart has trimmed the price of its annual Thanksgiving meal deal to less than $4 per person, down from less than $7 per person in 2024.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gausman allowed a solo home run to Dodgers catcher Will Smith, and two batters later, he got clipped by third baseman Max Muncy.
    Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Her arm was hooked up to an IV with a pulse oximeter clipped to her fingertip.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One was the same one that Lopez had shared with Villegas the day before over WhatsApp, except the agent had been cropped out of it.
    Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Prettygarden Faux Suede Cropped Jacket Another way to incorporate stony tan into your outerwear is through this Amazon cropped jacket.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The missing context is that Disney severely curtailed the release of the film because of the Chinese government’s pushback.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s how the Stanford baseball player — whose athletic aspirations were curtailed by a shoulder injury junior year — ended up in investing.
    Stav Ziv, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Golden Bachelor 2025 cast Owens recently pared the group of women vying for his attention down to the final three.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Moment | Getty Images Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 pared gains Tuesday, falling from record highs, after hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi won the lower house vote, to become Japan's first woman prime minister.
    Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sometime between September 2019 and July 2021, a cyber actor who the government believes is associated with Iran's government hacked Bolton's personal email account and got access to information Bolton emailed improperly, according to his indictment.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, satellite imagery from late September showed Fujian docked at Hainan island in the northern part of the South China Sea, where its commissioning ceremony is expected soon.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Both controllers charge when docked on the console, so there’s no battery swapping or extra charging cables to hide.
    Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Lopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopped. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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