trim
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Telluride’s trim ladder is tall enough to prune a redwood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
"There's just no more fat to trim," says the mother-of-two.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Fears that SpaceX could undercut wireless rates and squeeze launch capacity led Potter to trim his assumed monthly price for AST SpaceMobile’s service to $12 from $15.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
A 1920s usher’s uniform in sky blue with black trim, likely from the Plaza Theatre in London, stands at the entrance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Hung over his right arm was a fancy saddle with silver trim that gleamed so bright in the sun, it just about put my eyes out.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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That was slightly below the midpoint of an earlier company forecast, as it trims its expectations for ad sales due to a “slightly slower-than-expected rollout of some ad-product capabilities.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
It retains a “hold” call and trims its price target by 3.3%, to A$44.00/share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
However, the brokerage trims the stock’s target price to 5.80 baht from 6.00 baht to partly reflect near-term drag from asset divestment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
UBS trims its share-price target on Lynas to A$21.00 from A$22.50.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Glamry or no glamry,” she said, approaching with a cloth, “nobody trims my glassware without paying.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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During her stint as a tree trimmer, she guessed about 70% of the properties she worked on sat empty because they were either second homes or unoccupied Airbnbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Men with enormous beards that have never known the touch of a trimmer.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
But this week critics accused Mr Hennessy of making the 77-year-old in the Miami courtroom look far younger and trimmer than he really is.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
“We’ve never raced here before, it’s light airs and Kyle Langford, our wing trimmer, had to withdraw from the event. This is the one I see as a tough one for us.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Then I noticed that the old lady who lives at number 39, which is on the other side of Mrs. Shears’s house, was in her front garden cutting her hedge with an electric hedge trimmer.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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This design gives the A8F a stunning presentation of just a giant display with the trimmest of bezels surrounding it.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 2018
The company has an annual voluntary 12-week challenge in the fall to encourage employees to be active and not pack on the holiday pounds, with prizes for those who stay trimmest.
From Forbes ● Feb. 25, 2011
It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a deep ditch, with sides of sloping sward, cropped neatly, and kept in trimmest order, but, from its depth and width, forming a fence of a formidable kind.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
But the Vikings trimmed the lead on Tyler Thornton’s 33-yard field goal on the final play of the half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
TV stars Nick and Vanessa Lachey have trimmed $500,000 off the asking price of their longtime “dream home,” as they prepare to bid farewell to California.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
The trimmed mean and weighted median measures of inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada eased modestly to the slowest in six years, averaging 1.85% annually after remaining unchanged at 1.95% in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"What am I supposed to make of this? We're going to war," Irinkov told AFP as he trimmed the plants in his garden on a windy day.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
For two days the Astrea trimmed sail to the speed of the floundering vessels.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Mohammed Ashim has been cutting hair and trimming beards for four years in Bengaluru.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Infosys drops after trimming its guidance and reporting a decline in earnings per share.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
In May 2024, Carrey lowered the price again to $21.9 million before trimming it to $19.75 million that September.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
JPM cuts its recommendation on Schneider to neutral from overweight, while trimming its price target to 310 euros from 345 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Deen used to swear they were trimming his toenails for him,” she told Ess.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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