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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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An April survey of 300 GLP-1 users by the equity research firm William Blair found that 72% were specifically cutting back on hamburgers.

— Hallie Jackson, NBC news, 19 July 2026
The ball is cut back to the Lazio man, who meets it first time with a right-foot shot into the bottom corner.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of cut back

Verb

As a result, Tortorella was fined $100,000 and the Golden Knights were docked a second-round pick in June’s draft.

— Joe Smith, New York Times, 24 July 2026
The MEVs docked with aging commercial communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit to take over pointing and orbit control.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026

Definition of dock

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This is not the type of trimming that other franchises in the same payroll stratosphere have undergone in recent seasons.

— Fred Katz, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Higher jet fuel costs lead to costlier flights Since the war began, airlines have responded to the jump in fuel costs by raising fares and add-on fees, and trimming flights or routes that are no longer profitable at higher fuel prices.

— Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 24 July 2026

Definition of trim

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An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT maker said in a blog post.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 22 July 2026
Some Chick-fil-A accounts were hacked last month, exposing the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers, the company said this week.

— Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of hack

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He was paired with a more experienced colleague and learned through instruction and hands-on practice how to care for pines and azaleas, mainly using a hand-pruning technique essential for the Imperial Palace and villas.

— Hiroshige Yazawa Japan News, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026
Don’t cut or prune more aggressively because the plant needs enough foliage to manufacture food.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 16 July 2026

Definition of prune

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While clipping boosts awareness, tracking direct conversions remains a challenge, and both methods face disclosure risks, echoing past regulatory issues.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Clip Tech’s success reflects Amirzadeh’s ability to build products simple enough for anyone to use, and a track record of predicting where the clipping industry is heading.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 22 July 2026

Definition of clip

Verb

The rest will be showing slightly different versions, which may be cropped into smaller aspect ratios or projected without the clarity and texture of the original film stock.

— Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
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

Definition of crop

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Keep the rest of your ensemble pared back; an oversized button-down shirt works from summer through fall.

— India Roby, Glamour, 16 July 2026
The decline primarily stems from Goldman's sale of its Apple credit card business to JPMorgan — a smart move to pare back its consumer banking ambitions.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 14 July 2026

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