trim
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An unexpected bold red with a contrasting strip of vibrant blue trim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
A blue rug calls back to the ceiling trim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The cordon surrounds the scene, which is close to the fishing lake, and two camping tents - one of which is white with a navy blue trim - have been pitched.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
On Wednesday, Uber said it would lay off about 10% of its staff to trim management layers and streamline divisions, with plans to reinvest the savings in its future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The sleeves of her deep red dress were bell-shaped and flowing, the rich fabric embellished with golden trim.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
DBS trims its target price to 96.00 Hong Kong dollars from HK$98.00 and retains a buy rating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Morningstar trims its fair-value estimate for LONGi by 5% to 16.50 yuan and reduces JA’s by 15% to 12.40 yuan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The bank trims its target on the stock to A$34.35 from A$35.95 and downgrades to neutral from outperform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bell Potter trims its target price 2.9% to 34.00 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Clara trims the hair around my head and ears until I’m practically bald.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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
Flag football’s five-a-side line-ups mean trimmer rosters compared to the swamped sidelines of tackle football, making for a more compelling case given the IOC's intention to streamline athlete numbers.
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
“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
He was wearing the same kind of uniform as the first guy but was ten or fifteen years older and a whole lot trimmer.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
He found the ideal right-hand man in Stanton, who has streamlined CBS into the trimmest organization in broadcasting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her figure was the trimmest imaginable, her eyes were a dusky brown, her hair was of jet.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
The ceiling mural is trimmed in baby pink, which builds upon pink details in paintings on surrounding walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
We shared stories with a gooseberry-pie baker, whose mother had trimmed the berries, much as my mother had in her last years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have trimmed the asking price of their stunning California mansion by $700,000—just three months after listing the dwelling.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada averaged 1.95% annually compared with 1.9% a month earlier and close to the central bank’s 2% inflation target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
U.K. 30-year gilt yields last traded at 5.813%, trimming their earlier rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The brokerage also lowers its 2027-2028 interest-expense forecasts for the Thai company by 6%-11% after trimming its effective interest-rate assumption to around 3.4% from 3.65%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
He immediately went to work clearing warehouses of unsold inventory and trimming down Apple’s list of suppliers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
That means leaving certain markets and trimming benefits, rather than chasing subscriber gains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Like mowing his lawn, and trimming his peonies.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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