as in to prune
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If the leaking sap is due to pruning or damage by a mower or weed-eater, watch the wound for several weeks.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025 -
Good maintenance includes pruning dead and diseased wood, providing proper irrigation, amending soils, treating disease and insect infestations, and protecting trees from wildlife.—
Clarence Schmidt,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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For once, the Perrys promised, over many, many drinks, a movie would be made that didn’t dumb down the story on which it was based.—
Susan Cheever,
Vogue,
29 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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The Royal Navy crew achieved the major milestone as part of HMS Agamemnon’s ‘trim dive’, a three-day period of testing in the town’s Devonshire Dock to prove the attack vessel’s stability and safety.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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Brockman electrocuted while trimming trees On the day he was electrocuted, Brockman and his work crew were removing limbs that were close to Evergy power lines, the lawsuit said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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Over the next decade, Hawke and Linklater met periodically to read the script, refining it with screenwriter Robert Kaplow between sessions.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Duren’s been refining with big man coach Vitaly Potapenko but has shown sparingly thus far in his career.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Strip (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strip%20%28down%29. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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