trim
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Additionally, drop your water heater’s baseline temperature to 120 degrees to trim secondary energy bills.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Typically and historically, high battery costs have tended to displace customer-facing value—nice things we cannot have, like a top-shelf audio system, premium upholstery and trim, up-to-date comms and connectivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
He trained as a hairdresser in his youth and was giving his team-mates a trim by the time he made his senior debut aged 16 for Panamanian side Tauro.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Bond investors trim 1-year inflation swap rates to 2.16%, the lowest since October 2024, pushing back on recent Fed rate-hike messaging.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
A short, trim man with fashionably slicked brown hair walks crisply to the front.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Citi trims Tencent’s target price to HK$758.00 from HK$763.00.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
A staff member trims the wicks on a pair of carrot birthday candles, $22.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Social media has been "massive" for the barbering industry, says dad-of-three Alsanawi, whose Instagram is filled with videos of him giving players including England vice-captain Declan Rice fresh trims.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
It trims its target to 50.35 Australian dollars from A$50.40, owing to earnings changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
I picture my mother standing behind me with a comb and a pair of scissors, faintly smiling as she trims my hair, and I want to scream rather than insult her like this.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
CEO Chuck Robbins told analysts Cisco’s technology is “more relevant than ever,” and a trimmer workforce frees resources for optics, silicon, and AI.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
Men with enormous beards that have never known the touch of a trimmer.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
Flag football’s five-a-side line-ups mean trimmer rosters compared to the swamped sidelines of tackle football, making for a more compelling case given the IOC's intention to streamline athlete numbers.
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
I had seen him earlier walking around the backyard wielding a weed wacker, which turned out to need a new spool of trimmer string.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
He was wearing the same kind of uniform as the first guy but was ten or fifteen years older and a whole lot trimmer.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
This design gives the A8F a stunning presentation of just a giant display with the trimmest of bezels surrounding it.
From The Verge ● Nov. 2, 2018
The company has an annual voluntary 12-week challenge in the fall to encourage employees to be active and not pack on the holiday pounds, with prizes for those who stay trimmest.
From Forbes ● Feb. 25, 2011
Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk �do not recite, intone, pant, blow."
From Time Magazine Archive
And there's Miss Dorothy, the trimmest little craft that ever was; here she's been tossin' about and draggin' anchor, so to speak, all because he ain't here alongside.
From Donald and Dorothy by Dodge, Mary Mapes
Actress Aubrey Plaza has trimmed the price of her Spanish-style California compound by nearly a half-million dollars—less than two months after she relisted the property at a drastically reduced ask.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
When this coarse fern is trimmed it is "litter", the dead leaves on the floor that create a warmer ecosystem underneath which is essential for the growth of the High Brown caterpillar.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
At least several colleges have already trimmed costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Woven baskets, checkered blankets, fringed umbrellas and trimmed napkins prove picnic classics never go out of style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Just as I kept my sidelocks trimmed short and tucked behind my ears, he favored the narrow beard and generous mustache of the Stockyard bosses.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
At 14 songs and 62 minutes, the album would have benefited from trimming three or four of the more generic tunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
They also ended up trimming the total cost to $1 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Bond investors, meanwhile, were starting to push back on the rate hike messaging the Warsh-led Fed introduced last week, trimming 1-year inflation swap rates to 2.16%, the lowest since October of 2024.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some investors may be trimming parts of their “Magnificent Seven” holdings to make room for a newer generation of high-growth AI names, according to Joseph Powers, chief investment officer at RWA Wealth Partners.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
It was coarse- woven and simply made, without so much as a single bow for trimming, but it was certainly far more suited to the menial work she had to do in it.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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