as in defeats
failure to win a contest
our football team suffered a pretty severe trimming
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Recent Examples of trimmings
The beauty of cotton curtains lies in their versatility—the easy-to-handle material can be printed, support a variety of embroidery techniques, and adorned with trimmings to draw more attention to your windows.
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Never burn leaves or other yard trimmings.
—Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2025
With it, King said the only ingredients in it were beef trimmings, sea salt, pepper and paprika.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Most of her fabrics, trimmings and buttons are sourced from Italy and Japan.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Yes, according to the Department of Environment and Conservation, burning leaves and other debris — such as branches, tree limbs, twigs, lawn clippings, woody vegetation, yard trimmings, clean unpainted/uncoated wood, or untreated lumber — is allowed in Tennessee.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
Dylan Coates of Hobie Eyewear showed off the new Hull Float sunglasses whose frames are made from the plastic trimmings of Hobie kayaks.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
Miraculously, only the gunman, 60-year-old Brian Joseph Montana, died in the violent April 28 episode on Arroyo Drive that began with Montana reportedly threatening to kill his next-door neighbors, seemingly over lawn trimmings that blew into his yard.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 19 Sep. 2025
Never burn leaves or other yard trimmings.
—Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2025
With it, King said the only ingredients in it were beef trimmings, sea salt, pepper and paprika.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Most of her fabrics, trimmings and buttons are sourced from Italy and Japan.
—Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Yes, according to the Department of Environment and Conservation, burning leaves and other debris — such as branches, tree limbs, twigs, lawn clippings, woody vegetation, yard trimmings, clean unpainted/uncoated wood, or untreated lumber — is allowed in Tennessee.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
Dylan Coates of Hobie Eyewear showed off the new Hull Float sunglasses whose frames are made from the plastic trimmings of Hobie kayaks.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
Miraculously, only the gunman, 60-year-old Brian Joseph Montana, died in the violent April 28 episode on Arroyo Drive that began with Montana reportedly threatening to kill his next-door neighbors, seemingly over lawn trimmings that blew into his yard.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trimmings
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Sealing the deal averted a potential Azeri invasion to secure unfettered access after Azerbaijan’s forces inflicted heavy defeats on Armenia’s army in 2020 and 2023 and pushed 120,000 Armenians out of Nagorno-Karabakh.—
Michele Crestani,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Four of those have been defeats, including this loss to Midtjylland which saw Forest concede two more goals to set-pieces in a chaotic first half.—
Sam Joseph,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Future solar cells, for instance, might harness coherence to move energy more efficiently, reducing losses and boosting performance.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Small private-sector businesses drove last month’s decline, and losses were widespread across industries (with some of the largest losses in professional and business services and leisure and hospitality), ADP reported.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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The film stars Vahid Mubasseri as a mechanic with painful kidney injuries from prison beatings who first follows the distinctive thumping sound of a prosthetic leg that’s etched on his brain and sets the plot in motion.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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More than two dozen arrests were made in Goons beatings across the East Valley in the first half of 2024.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The setbacks last year were against Oregon and Penn State, the latter game being in the College Football Playoff.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Oct. 2025
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Plus, the team will surely look to upgrade its starting rotation after a series of injuries and setbacks drove its early exit.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Trimmings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trimmings. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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