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Loppers, sometimes called lopping shears or secateurs, are like heavy duty hand pruners with bigger blades and longer handles.
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Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024
In the scene’s climax, Art lops the mother’s arm off with an axe before delivering a final blow to her head.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Along with the cut, officials indicated the likelihood of another half point lopped off in the final two meetings of 2024, along with another full percentage point of cuts in 2025.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
Beyond that, traders are expecting the Fed to lop a full percentage point off by the end of 2024, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch gauge.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
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Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024
In the scene’s climax, Art lops the mother’s arm off with an axe before delivering a final blow to her head.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024
Along with the cut, officials indicated the likelihood of another half point lopped off in the final two meetings of 2024, along with another full percentage point of cuts in 2025.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
Beyond that, traders are expecting the Fed to lop a full percentage point off by the end of 2024, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch gauge.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
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This corresponds to the ideal times to repot and prune Christmas cacti, practices that tend to produce material for propagation.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
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Crape myrtles don't need much pruning to stay healthy.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
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Notably, the musicians pared the song down for its late-night debut, shortening it from 13 minutes to five.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
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Investors pared back BoE rate cut bets to fully price in just two quarter-point cuts in borrowing costs between now and the end of 2025.Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Malcolm Washington and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams found a way to trim the play while keeping its spirit intact.Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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What's next: The incoming Trump administration is likely to push the country's federal workforce back into the office — largely as a way to trim headcount.Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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For women, the collection includes the short, cropped Ruffle blazer in blue, the Cone dress and the Tulip coat in beige.Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Rowe responded that Fallon’s photo cropped out the members of the protective team there to secure the event.Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
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Josie made two solid, explosive passes at the convoy, but her bird could not avoid getting clipped by enemy fire.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 8 Dec. 2024
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To maximize flowering, prune late blooming clematis hard in February by clipping vines back to the lowest set of flower buds.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
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The former exec fears that the triple-A industry can't grow any bigger, but there may be a way to cut back.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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As a matter of city policy, Austin Energy has been cutting back the portion of its energy generation from coal.Asher Price, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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However, tinkerers are finding new uses for the hardware: Car Thing can be hacked to run custom software that doesn’t require Spotify’s backend.Umar Shakir, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
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The Chinese started it—not actually MSS themselves, but one of its arm’s length hacking groups which managed to infiltrate US telco networks.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The Savannah will be carrying a crew of 103 sailors and will not dock at the nearby Ream Naval Base, a site that has raised alarm in Washington and other Western capitals due to its potential use by Chinese military assets.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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Silhouette of passenger in front of the JetBlue Airbus A321neo aircraft spotted on the apron tarmac docked at the passenger jet bridge from the terminal of Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport AMS EHAM in the Netherlands.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Lop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lop. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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