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our football team suffered a pretty severe trimming
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The sun gleamed through the windows of Wise Guys Scissor Society barbershop in downtown Hartford as a barber brushed the trimmings from Eriberto DeLeon Jr.’s cape.
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Tabius McCoy, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2025
To help prepare for new technology, the city checked its surveillance system in December to see what cameras were blocked by trees, leading to over 300 trimmings, Gatewood said.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
A lot of the trimming was loose, the drawers didn't quite function, and there were pieces of plywood that needed replacing.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
So the government goal of grappling with the budget might best be served by incrementalism - keeping growth flat, or lower than inflation, for a few years, combined with some select trimming, making the plans more likely to be acceptable to the general public and the Congress.
—Frank Lavin, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Tabius McCoy, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2025
To help prepare for new technology, the city checked its surveillance system in December to see what cameras were blocked by trees, leading to over 300 trimmings, Gatewood said.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
A lot of the trimming was loose, the drawers didn't quite function, and there were pieces of plywood that needed replacing.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
So the government goal of grappling with the budget might best be served by incrementalism - keeping growth flat, or lower than inflation, for a few years, combined with some select trimming, making the plans more likely to be acceptable to the general public and the Congress.
—Frank Lavin, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Trimming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trimming. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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