as in to prune
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There are proposals for agencies to be merged, mandates reduced, headcounts pruned.—
David Miliband,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025 -
This understanding of soil diversity enables Wineburg and her team to make more precise viticulture decisions, like adjusting pruning techniques to enhance vascular flow, shaping canopy structure, and managing yields to suit the unique character of each block.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
21 Sep. 2025
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This is clearly an assault on learning by the White House and an attempt to dumb down the national population.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
20 July 2025
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State and local leaders should also roll back any guidance that is meant to force teachers to dumb down curriculums or provide passing grades to students who are failing or inflate grades across the board.—
Carrie Lukas,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Consider color-blocking or subtle contrast trim if your heart is set on a mix of colors.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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For Zone 2, which is the area beyond Zone 1 up to 100 feet from a building, property owners are required to keep grass trimmed, space out shrubs and trees, and keep a 10-foot buffer around wood piles.—
Hannah Ruhoff,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The Orange City Council stopped short this week of approving major safety upgrades to the historic Old Towne Orange traffic circle, instead asking city staff to gather more crash data and refine safety proposals.—
Hanna Kang,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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With the initial design phase complete, Type One Energy hopes to refine its models further using Frontier, ORNL’s current, more powerful supercomputer, to increase confidence in the design before construction begins.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Strip (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strip%20%28down%29. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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