pruning

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Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:

From The Wall Street Journal

Recent studies have increasingly tied the complement cascade to excessive synaptic pruning and to neurological disorders.

From Science Daily

This idea led to the widely accepted theory that excessive "synaptic pruning," the process of removing weak or unused connections, could contribute to neuropsychiatric conditions.

From Science Daily

Companies are pruning underperforming legacy brands and doubling down on faster-growing categories.

From Barron's

Unilever said on Monday that it will focus on producing condiments and other packaged products to "sharpen" its catalogue of goods, which will mean "pruning the portfolio where relevant".

From BBC