pruning

Example Sentences

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They’re pruning good investors who had a down year and keeping mediocre ones who got lucky.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Then I threw my back out lifting a 50-pound bag of Quikrete, I nearly fell off the ladder pruning trees, plumbing began to look unappealing and everything took longer than anticipated.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

"I like to use the metaphor of pruning a tree," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026

“These I saved from the pruning of the walnut tree that stands by the well,” he said.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli