as in to prune
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Not all hollies tolerate such severe pruning well, so make sure to check if your type of holly can be pruned this way before attempting it.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Feb. 2025 -
Mature shrubs that have not been severely pruned will often bloom in February.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The president-elect tends to avoid details—during his first term, aides learned to dumb down their presentations with bullet points.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes,
21 Nov. 2024
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Where there other ideas about how to dumb down Sage?—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
20 June 2024
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Also different in 2025, five broad categories were trimmed to three.—
David Spiegel,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, superhero cinema seems to be trimming a lot of the fat that’s contributed to the genre’s loss of gloss from its heady days of late-2010s.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Not refining the budget on paper by playing with numbers, but by being productively smart and undertaking a massive effort of production engineering.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Many surgeons specialize exclusively in hair transplants and consistently refine their techniques.—
Kody Boye,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Strip (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strip%20%28down%29. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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