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thinning

noun as in attrition

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Environmental advocates also worry that the forest thinning portion of the project will focus more on biofuel companies’ bottom lines than forest health, doing little to prevent wildfires.

Mr. Ramaswamy has already outlined his support for five-day workweeks at federal agencies, telling Tucker Carlson recently that such a mandate could lead to a “25 percent thinning out of the federal bureaucracy.”

"They went on to give her blood thinning injections, and she started vomiting up blood again," Rachael said.

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All the Dodgers had to do now: Figure out how to cover the rest of the game with their quickly thinning pitching options.

Their use, coupled with selective clearing of smaller trees and underbrush in another Indigenous technique called thinning, reduces the severity, intensity, and tree mortality of wildfires.

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