cutting
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The government complained that hungry sharks are eating too much Atlantic cod and Greenland halibut, cutting into what humans can bring home and damaging their gear.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Soda and snack giant PepsiCo cut its earnings projection for the year and vowed to continue cutting costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Surging grocery costs and $4-a-gallon gas prices where he lives have the 62-year-old mortgage-loan officer cutting back on day-to-day expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The BBC has announced it will be cutting a raft of Radio 4 programmes including the long-running consumer and social affairs show You and Yours.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Recently, I’ve felt the creeping sense that it’s all been taking too long, that working for only four hours a week hasn’t been cutting it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Within a few years, he had planted 10,000 cuttings and stripped every flower bed from the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
All they had to do was obtain cuttings from berry plants on existing farms, then reproduce them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It has also become easy for the couple to grow their jungle simply by swapping plants and trading cuttings of their more unusual plants through the online community they have built up.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
"A survival strategy starts with finding clean cuttings in the wild before myrtle rust attacks them and propagating them to grow at safe sites," he said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Rafinesque-Schmaltz, meanwhile, spent seven years wandering through the Appalachians, didn’t discover much, but brought in 50,000 seeds and cuttings.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
