trimmed
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Yet new details revealed in court show that critical fire prevention equipment needed repair before the blaze and that vegetation under the tower where it ignited hadn’t been trimmed for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Comparable sales expectations were also trimmed, now expected at flat, compared with its previous range of between flat and up 2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Russia's central bank recently trimmed its annual GDP forecast to flat to 1 percent, from an earlier forecast of 0.4-1.3 percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
They were her fancy ones, trimmed at the ankle with a specially prepared ruff of white rabbit fur.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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