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The novelist had decided to lop off the manuscript’s opening chapters before publication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The bonus deduction is written to lop $6,000 or $12,000 from a household’s yearly taxable income.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025

The council granted a license for the work with specific instructions to "lop the trees, as opposed to felling them" and stated that the work should be completed outside the bird nesting season.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

So commercial aviation says it’s looking to lop off emissions where it can — from the routes aircraft take to the time they spend circling airports, sitting on the tarmac or idling at the gate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

Mom’s laser eyes continued to lop off my body parts.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

Bur he lagged behind Antonelli throughout, and although there was less than 0.1secs separating the Mercedes drivers after their first runs, the gap opened when Russell did not improve and Antonelli lopped 0.274secs off his.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

That’s lopped several dollars from global oil prices, produced an easing in Treasury bond yields, and stoked risk appetite—tied in large part to the improving AI sentiment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Iran’s attacks on energy infrastructure and a shipping bottleneck in the Persian Gulf region have sparked a global scramble for oil and lopped off billions of dollars in revenue for some Western oil companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

A drop in federal spending lopped almost a full percentage point off GDP.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

In 1958, as we’ve seen, twenty miles were lopped off the southern end from Mount Oglethorpe to Springer Mountain.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Shares in Oracle have tumbled 40% since early September, lopping nearly $360 billion from its market value, since the company unveiled a huge jump in projected revenue from its burgeoning AI business.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Kipp has estimated that difference in oxygen consumption could result in a three-hour marathoner lopping three minutes off their finish time—reminiscent of the super-shoe manufacturer’s claim of a 4 percent oxygen consumption improvement.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2024

The American colonies did it in 1752, simply lopping about a week and a half off September that year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

She took more than a second off her 400m hurdles personal best in 2021, before lopping off another half second with a 54.73-second run in Rome earlier this month.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022

Seabiscuit was lopping a foot off of Aneroid’s lead with every stride, but room was running out.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand