lop
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The novelist had decided to lop off the manuscript’s opening chapters before publication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
State lotteries typically lop off 24% of winnings for federal taxes, and the bill can run even higher because the top federal income tax rate is 37%.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 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
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
He lopped the branches, split the trunks, and trimmed his puncheons true.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
One plan that was under consideration in recent months calls for lopping off the middle school, grades 6, 7 and 8, and sending those students to an under-enrolled high school nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
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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