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The rough at Bethpage, known for its maddening length when it hosts major championships, was trimmed so short that players were sometimes better off there than on the fairway.

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With judicious trimming, particularly of the occasional puddle of expository or repetitive dialogue, the play would gain a tauter pace.

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The scissors let us trim, edit and reshape the world on our screens.

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The firm reiterated a Buy rating on Penguin Solutions while trimming its price target on the stock to $27 from $31.

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She has such a good eye for things that I wouldn’t even have noticed, you know, say, “No, I think you should trim that; put this right here. This frame looks weird.”

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