pruning
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"We have to use this time to get things done... we're pruning the rose bushes for winter," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
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
Then I threw my back out lifting a 50-pound bag of Quikrete, I nearly fell off the ladder pruning trees, plumbing began to look unappealing and everything took longer than anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
So off she went, leaving me filling the root cellar with bushel baskets of vegetables, pruning the fruit trees, spreading the compost—getting ready for winter.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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
And Nature herself provides all the checks and prunings required, in her tests of teething, of measles, and the other diseases and trials of infancy and childhood.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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