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
  • Spirea Hemphill recommends pruning spirea in spring, to maintain their shape and remove any weak or dead branches.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Severe pruning late in the growing season can reduce winter survival rates.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of pruning
Verb
  • Informal ones have looser requirements and can be pruned once or twice a year with selective thinning and trimming by hand.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2026
  • From Christmas cocktails and tree-trimming ideas to gift wrapping, recipes, and musical moments, each segment adds warmth, fun, and fresh inspiration.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of trimming
Verb
  • Later that summer, having turned professional, Russell qualified for her first World Championships but crashed out at the semifinals after clipping the second hurdle.
    — Fraser Godden, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The community is highly deferential to Fuentes, O’Brian says, eager to gain his favor by clipping and posting moments from his show or attacking his critics online.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — the benchmark for mortgages, car loans and credit card rates — traded above 5% before paring gains.
    — Michelle Fox,Sean Conlon,Natalie Feary, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
  • In other stock markets abroad, indexes in Europe dipped after paring bigger losses from earlier in the day.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of paring
Verb
  • The software does a decent job of automatically recognizing the edges of the paper, cropping or tilting pages when necessary, and flattening the curves characteristic of facing pages in bound books.
    — David English, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Apple's Duo offers 2x optical-quality zoom by cropping into its main sensor.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of cropping
Verb
  • Her campaign focused on curtailing immigration, confronting China and cutting wasteful government spending.
    — Maham Javaid, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
  • In October alone, Houthi missile strikes on Saudi airports have killed at least 21 people and wounded hundreds, forcing authorities to shut down operations in the country’s main international airport in Riyadh and curtailing travel in others.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of curtailing
Verb
  • Adjusting mowing height, watering deeply but less frequently, and following appropriate fertilization practices may improve its appearance without additional seed.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026
  • John Watts, who owns a mowing company, says the rain disrupted his work plans that day.
    — Veronica Fulton-Mazaika, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of mowing
Verb
  • Blockchain firms have pointed to the attack coming from a North Korean hacking unit.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • No hacking group has claimed responsibility for either wave of incidents.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of hacking
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