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manicuring

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present participle of manicure

as in pruning

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Skip pruning woody plants in fall to avoid harming them; wait until late winter or spring.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2026
As cheaper models become uneconomic to produce, manufacturers are pruning them from their line-ups, pushing the overall market higher.

— Celestine Iyer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026

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Landlords Even before legislation banning institutional investors from purchasing more single-family homes became law, the eight largest Wall Street landlords were trimming their portfolios.

— Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
The changes include cutting small teams consisting of one to two reports by nearly half and trimming employees seven steps away from the CEO by 20%.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

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Last year's addition of telephoto capacity in the baseline Pixel models bodes well for cropping into a shot and turning something relatively far away into a moment.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 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

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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

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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
The nonprofit also found Lindemann parking personal vehicles in its lot, mowing its lawn, and planting shrubs, according to the suit.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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As a computer worm, the threat can self-replicate, hacking one WeChat account and then moving to another by targeting users through their friend lists.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
The switch means hackers spend drastically less time actively hacking, and in some cases can conduct an entire campaign in less than six hours, the report says.

— Kevin Collier, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026

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