trim
Example Sentences
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But some employees will be let go, others will see their hours trimmed, and still others will never be hired because they’ve become too expensive to employ.
While investors have trimmed bets against sterling after November’s better-than-feared U.K. budget, expectations for further Bank of England interest-rates cuts next year could weigh on the currency.
California officials argued being broke wasn’t enough to justify trimming Hernandez’s bill.
From Los Angeles Times
A better-than-feared U.K. budget in November prompted investors to trim earlier bets against sterling, supporting the currency’s recent recovery.
As a result, the broken DNA ends are trimmed excessively, exposing long sections of single-stranded DNA.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
