lop
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The AI did, however, lop off part of my hair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The bonus deduction is written to lop $6,000 or $12,000 from a household’s yearly taxable income.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025
In his Newsnight interview, Lowe said of Farage's "brutal" leadership style "If people become, if you like, too tall a poppy, he tends to lop off the head of the poppy".
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
Rub the excess paper from the head of garlic, trim its root end to remove any dirt and lop off the top ½-inch to expose the cloves.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
“First you gotta go in and lop off the branches. Then you chop down the trunk.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
That tree still stands with its major branches and half its trunk lopped off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Bur he lagged behind Antonelli throughout, and although there was less than 0.1secs separating the Mercedes drivers after their first runs, the gap opened when Russell did not improve and Antonelli lopped 0.274secs off his.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
That’s lopped several dollars from global oil prices, produced an easing in Treasury bond yields, and stoked risk appetite—tied in large part to the improving AI sentiment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
The couple watched as a contractor for the local utility company methodically lopped off big sections of the beech outside their home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
It was lying lopped and dead in the field.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Shares in Oracle have tumbled 40% since early September, lopping nearly $360 billion from its market value, since the company unveiled a huge jump in projected revenue from its burgeoning AI business.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Roley moved from Arizona to Idaho in 2023 to work for his father's tree lopping company, his mother said in a social media post.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
Kipp has estimated that difference in oxygen consumption could result in a three-hour marathoner lopping three minutes off their finish time—reminiscent of the super-shoe manufacturer’s claim of a 4 percent oxygen consumption improvement.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2024
The American colonies did it in 1752, simply lopping about a week and a half off September that year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
It feels less Darwinian than Swiftian; it calls to mind a long-ago dart attributed to G. K. Chesterton: when there aren’t enough hats to go around, the problem isn’t solved by lopping off some heads.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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