trim
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The agency said the recalled cars have door handles that are "difficult to identify" because they are a similar colour to the vehicle's interior trim.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
While some employees may lightly trim their stakes as more shares are unlocked, Mills thinks many insiders will likely hold out for bigger gains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Analysts at the investment bank trim their full-year cash profit forecast by 2.4% on slightly lower margin and volume expectations, but maintain a buy rating on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
That Maverick is more alert, more tractable, more responsive and way more efficient, posting up to 38 mpg, combined, depending on trim and choice of tires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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 cuts its rating to neutral from buy and trims its ADR target price to $7.80 from $9.30.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Macquarie trims its target price on the stock 2.7% to 7.10 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Bell Potter trims its target price 2.9% to 34.00 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
MS trims its target price on Life360’s U.S.-listed stock 1.6% to US$65.20, and on its ASX-listed stock by 1.6% to 31.50 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Clara trims the hair around my head and ears until I’m practically bald.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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 go through my ritual,” he said, hitting the trimmer button.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
“We’ve never raced here before, it’s light airs and Kyle Langford, our wing trimmer, had to withdraw from the event. This is the one I see as a tough one for us.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Then she turned the electric hedge trimmer off and said, “I’m afraid you’re going to have to say that again. I’m a little deaf.”
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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
It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would get down to the office first of all; she would wear the trimmest suits; she would never be cross, never be tired, never rebel at the most flagrant imposition!
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Gross domestic product in Canada could get trimmed by 0.3 percentage points, Oxford said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
—The 10-year French government bond, or OAT, yield trimmed its rise after a weaker-than-expected flash estimate purchasing managers’ index reading for August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The German defense group trimmed its sales guidance for the year this month after the German government cancelled a major frigate order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
When he had one row, he trimmed off the top edges so that each of the blocks slanted in.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
He immediately went to work clearing warehouses of unsold inventory and trimming down Apple’s list of suppliers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
He said the hospital is “trying to turn it around from all the levers possible,” such as renegotiating contracts with insurers, trimming costs and advocating for more government funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Part of what we’re seeing today is probably traders trimming ahead of results rather than waiting to find out," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
"I have done all sorts, all sorts, trimming back brambles, conservation work, tidying up, setting up for events."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Opa reaches for a cake trimming, takes a bite.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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