shave
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One of the goals of the merger is to shave costs by consolidating overlapping business divisions and back-office functions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
To pay growing computing bills to those and other AI giants, companies are likely to shave down non-AI software and hardware spending sold by traditional firms, said Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
If we take the 30-year loan and make one extra payment a year, and apply that to the principal, we will shave eight years off the life of the loan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
“Anybody here have to shave their ears? Nothing to be ashamed of, sir.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Whatever. It’s a stupid bet. I wouldn’t have made you shave your head.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
A more than $1-a-gallon run-up since January shaves about 5% off her earnings for most journeys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
The 37-year-old millionaire has also posted images of hundreds of inmates, their head shaves, in orange uniforms being moved to a new mega-prison, echoing moves by El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
She shaves his face, massages his head, slices apples and apricots for his breakfast each morning.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
Sonoda no longer shaves on the days Yamamoto starts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
"Oh, yes, this is it. Fifteen days after death. Prayers. Oldest son shaves head and recites after priest."
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
A platter of summer tomatoes, tuna-belly conserva, shaved onion, and punchy olives arrives where it cannot possibly fit.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
With his head shaved and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit, Farinacci appeared in court where his bail was raised from $1 million to $2 million.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The mediocre headline increase comes with a big caveat: A bigger U.S. trade deficit and smaller inventory replenishment shaved 1.7 percentage points off the economy’s growth rate.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
It has shaved 24 seconds from cafe orders and 12 from drive-through ones in its recently completed third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
But England did not change him too much—his hair is still shaved close on one side and long on the other, and his eyes are still bright.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Who knows where the trend began, but I remain clean shaven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Detainees in brown uniforms - with shaven heads - sit silent and motionless on thin mattresses, on opposite sides of a cell.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
The Sheriff’s Department is looking for the suspect, who was described as a Black male, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, 180 pounds and with a shaven head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
She had spotted her son in the image, taken from above, of a sea of shaven heads belonging to men in white T-shirts sat in long, straight rows.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
Once clean shaven and conservatively groomed, he now had a beard and longish hair and affected the military-style clothing characteristic of freedom fighters around the continent.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
“Cancer has a way of taking things you never realized you’d grieve,” she wrote alongside a video of the parents shaving Whimsy’s head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
The objects, which sold for a total of £59,761, vary from a Victorian travelling shaving brush by pioneering silversmith Frances Douglas to an Imperial Russian tankard and an Edwardian jewellery box.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
After all, shaving remains the cheapest and quickest way to deal with a receding hairline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Kluska believes uniQure has a clear shot at launching the drug by late 2027, shaving years off Cantor’s original 2030 timeline.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
“It’s the shaving lotion I got on my birthday.”
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
