pruning
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Is Microsoft laying off 3,200 employees from the Xbox division just a new boss coming in and pruning an overgrown asset, or is it a sign that console gaming is coming to the end?
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Investor sentiment will be driven by net debt reductions and pruning of the portfolio, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
He’s 72 and does much of the farm work himself, pruning, repairing water lines and applying fertilizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
They’re pruning good investors who had a down year and keeping mediocre ones who got lucky.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
It was a normal garden shed with pruning shears, buckets, watering cans, and the accompanying assortment of cobwebs, dead bugs, and dust.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Nearby, prunings from a carrotwood tree lay in a parkway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
The Bucket Jockey is an effective but inexpensive way to organize and easily transport your tools with a bucket for holding your prunings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
The move mirrors similar prunings around the country at other public colleges and universities that are reeling from steep drops in state aid.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010
But in reality Sannino’s gets very few takers for its midwinter vine prunings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2010
After playing around for a time, Winnie and Bobsey concluded that gathering and piling up my prunings would be as good fun as anything else; and so I had helpers again.
From Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe
