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manicuring

verb

present participle of manicure
as in pruning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manicuring
  1. pruning
  2. trimming
  3. clipping
  4. paring
  5. cropping
  6. curtailing
  7. mowing
  8. hacking
Verb
  • These premium fruits also often require methodical techniques to ensure their signature characteristics, like the precise amount of sunlight or the timing of pruning.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Some plants provide winter interest or food for wildlife, so delay pruning until spring.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of pruning
Verb
  • Hutton snuck in a right-footed shot from a narrow angle in the 73rd minute, trimming the lead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Wall Street is trimming targets while the sector lags the market.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of trimming
Verb
  • Brands, including sports leagues, understand that content clipping is both a marketing strategy and a way to engage with new and established audiences.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Murphy is engaging enough to keep things clipping right along (and Emma is a heroine very easy to root for), but things are at their very best when Emma and Luke are giving into their big feelings.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • Still, paring down can declutter cupboards and lead to a smaller collection that'll actually get used.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Oil prices fell around 2% on hopes that Saudi Arabia was moving to restore about half of crude shipments within days after they were disrupted by the stoppage of its East-West pipeline to the Red Sea, before paring losses.
    — September 18, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of paring
Verb
  • The photo editing tools are also limited to basic actions like cropping and rotating.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
Definition of cropping
Verb
  • The miniseries is only three hours long, so Wallace had to heavily truncate King’s gargantuan tome, curtailing and expunging scenes and entire characters, as well as toning things down to fit broadcast rules.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The United States should expect Beijing to continue to wield its agriculture sector for geopolitical influence, whether through curtailing imports of food, restricting exports of select commodities, or both.
    — Caitlin Welsh, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of curtailing
Verb
  • Wait a week or more after mowing so the herbicide has more contact with the weed surfaces, and treat the lawn when no rain is expected for at least 24 hours.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Having a healthy lawn means managing soil conditions for the roots, mowing properly, and strengthening the density of the grass by overseeding.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of mowing
Verb
  • During the trial, Hedrick cast doubt on Turner’s hacking claim because the material spanned several months and evidence was found on several phone applications.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • But even if the risks are merely bad—like hacking into a single financial institution or hospital, manipulating the stock market, or taking out an electrical grid—suing a company after the fact won’t really provide the outcome society wants.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of hacking
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“Manicuring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manicuring. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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