lop
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The AI did, however, lop off part of my hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
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
“First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
The couple watched as a contractor for the local utility company methodically lopped off big sections of the beech outside their home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
A drop in federal spending lopped almost a full percentage point off GDP.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
The fruits of all that research have been blithely and abruptly lopped off the vine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
One thinks immediately of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who after having both his arms lopped off declares, “It’s just a flesh wound.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
Roley moved from Arizona to Idaho in 2023 to work for his father's tree lopping company, his mother said in a social media post.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
Heeding their calls, the City Council redrew district boundaries in 1972, lopping off Boyle Heights and El Sereno from Lindsay’s district and putting them in the 14th.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long-ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there aren’t enough hats to go around, the problem isn’t solved by lopping off some heads.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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