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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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While many breweries are indeed closing or cutting back, some more expansive taprooms with food options — including 30hop and Big Grove Brewery — are making a splash in the metro.

— Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
That would allow the market to self-correct by cutting back on spending.

— Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of cut back

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On Wednesday, the evening before they were set to dock, the mood seemed far more jovial aboard the ship; sailors were chatting and laughing, some were running a 5K around a deck now free of aircraft.

— Mosheh Gains, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors say workers were paid less than $2 an hour, illegally docked money for housing and denied overtime for working up to 10 hours a day, six days a week.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026

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Comments under the posts suggest that at least one user was worried that their Echo device had been hacked, while some suspect the issue may be linked to a recent software update.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026
However, sometime within the past three years, an unknown person apparently hacked the mission’s voicemail, rerecording the greeting message as a satirical monologue about mass starvation and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

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It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Big companies like UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and others are chasing higher profits by pruning benefits, after investors grew dissatisfied with margins that were smaller than the insurers had promised.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of prune

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Ohtani clipped Drake Baldwin’s mitt with his bat and was awarded first base for catcher’s interference.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of clip

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Her shrunken two-piece skirt suit—the jacket cropped to reveal her abs, the skirt extra-mini—perfectly encapsulated the cartoonish silhouette that Barbie so often rocks.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
But then, on the day, someone cropped the photo on the phone to be just her.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of crop

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Related Stories Skydance has a tight runway through the end of 2029 to significantly pare down the long-term debt on the company’s books.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Since their debut in 1986, American Girl has shrunk their historical line significantly–including paring down the traditional six-book set for each historical character into two streamlined texts.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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