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The new apartment will lop nearly $800 off their rent, said his wife, 36, adding, “It will be a great help, especially when we’re looking for child care.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 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

The council granted a license for the work with specific instructions to "lop the trees, as opposed to felling them" and stated that the work should be completed outside the bird nesting season.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

So commercial aviation says it’s looking to lop off emissions where it can — from the routes aircraft take to the time they spend circling airports, sitting on the tarmac or idling at the gate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

“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

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

A drop in federal spending lopped almost a full percentage point off GDP.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

Its late autumn slump, which has lopped nearly $750 billion in value from the world’s largest cryptocurrency since its Oct.

From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025

But Louie was already the fastest high school miler in American history, and he was improving so rapidly that he had lopped forty-two seconds off his time in two years.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Since the censors’ Greek was even worse than Milton’s, they often made mistakes, lopping off endearments, x’s and o’s.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides