manicure

verb

Definition of manicurenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manicure
  1. cut back
  2. dock
  3. trim
  4. hack
  5. prune
  6. clip
  7. crop
  8. pare
Verb
  • Leaving some long vines and cutting back others creates a fuller effect.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Many people who are attempting to cut back on their Instagram use remove the app from their phone and use only the desktop-computer version, which is clunkier and less comfortable to scroll through for hours.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of cut back
Verb
  • The boat will dock at nine different locations around the city, from Watertown Square to Cambridgeport, the Hatch Shell and TD Garden.
    — Levan Reid, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • One or both landers will take part in next year’s Artemis III, a docking rehearsal in orbit around Earth.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of dock
Verb
  • Use sharp tools to trim blooms close to the stalk and avoid cutting off buds.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Haskell's team is also staying high in quality and coupons, trimming lower-coupon exposures in favor of those that are upward of 5% that the firm thinks are better poised to handle periods of market uncertainty.
    — Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of trim
Verb
  • Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • On Wednesday, Meta similarly disclosed an AI agent that hacked into another organization’s systems.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of hack
Verb
  • 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
Definition of prune
Verb
  • On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for the first time, barely clipping the inside edge of the strike zone.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The second worker was clipped in the jaw by a misfiring nail gun.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of clip
Verb
  • 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
  • The sensor comes into play there too; both the main and telephoto sensors capture 37MP photos, and since 4K video is only 8MP, there's room to crop without losing detail.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026
Definition of crop
Verb
  • Kratos Defense & Security Solutions — The maker of unmanned systems for the military rose as much as 8% postmarket before paring that advance.
    — Darla Mercado, CFP®,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • But the necessity of paring down such a massive event has the effect of flattening the very elements that ought to give it its texture and heft — namely, the people involved.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
Definition of pare

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