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manicure

verb

Definition of manicure

as in to cut back

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Recent Examples of manicure Trim hedges and manicure any garden paths—especially the one that leads to the front door. — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 21 May 2026 The grounds are as manicured as a golf course, and the cabin clusters look like suburban subdivisions. — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026 These include vacuums that empty themselves, robot mops that scrub and even mowers that manicure your lawn without human intervention. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026 This gives ample time to properly manicure your nails before applying polish. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for manicure

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Buying Al Nassr would put RedBird at the center of Saudi Arabia’s multi-billion-dollar sports expansion, which had been on a tear before the government began cutting back on spending.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
That means choosing potassium-rich foods that support healthy blood pressure, like lentils and leafy greens, while cutting back on others that cardiologists recommend limiting.

— Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of cut back

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After the shuttle left, astronauts used the space station's robotic arm to move the shuttle docking port out of the way at the Destiny module.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The SpaceX plan The biggest ask SpaceX engineers had in meetings with NASA in early 2026 was removing the requirement to dock with Orion in a near-rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

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The outlet says that OpenAI wants to capitalize on revenue growth from its GPT-6 Astra model and higher usage that’s come from its decision to trim prices on its cheaper models.

— John Kell, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
When Cleveland trimmed the lead to 3-1 in the sixth inning, Tampa answered with a two-run homer by Junior Caminero in the seventh.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of trim

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OpenAI has discovered several similar hacking incidents since the Hugging Face hack.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
The disclosure follows a September report by cybersecurity nonprofit Transluce revealing that OpenAI agents attempted to hack public databases and an Australian government website simply to complete basic research tasks.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of hack

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If desired, Meyer lemons can also be pruned in late winter to early spring to refine their shrubby look into a more tree-like appearance.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 16 Oct. 2026
States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.

— Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of prune

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Their participation builds your credibility by association and recordings can be clipped into social content that extends your reach, especially when guests share it too.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
TikTok hosts similar footage, albeit clipped for vertical video and treated with title cards.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of clip

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Conservative lawyer Michael Edney cast the move in a long line of other attempts to pare back statutes from that era.

— Carrie Johnson, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Featuring a sleek black column skirt and minimalist stilettos, the look, while pared-back, was far from boring thanks to a creamy sleeveless top with a voluminous feather-like hem.

— Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

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