cropping

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Cropping land proven to be pathogen free is in very short supply.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

Cropping, improving the contrast, removing red eye and even sending your images via e-mail are so simple that instructions are unnecessary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cropping stags lifted their antlered heads, and fawns with dappled sides and immense lustrous eyes gazed at him without actual fear, even while they sidled closer to their mothers.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Cropping out from beneath the Portland beds is the Kimmeridge Clay with so-called “Coal” bands, which forms the lower platform near the village of that name.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

Beside the chariots stood the unharness'd steeds950 Cropping the lotus, or at leisure browsed On celery wild, from watery freshes gleaned.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William