trim
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Martin-Baker expanded club privileges in 2009 after British watchmaker Bremont designed the MBI, a silver watch with red trim, for its members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A blue rug calls back to the ceiling trim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Jacobs’ residence is constructed from stone and plaster, with a slate roof and copper trim.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
It is easy to see why JLR's chief executive PJ Balaji feels action is necessary to trim costs and make the company leaner.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
It was a deep crimson with gold trim, and a swirly gold inlay framed the image.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Jarden trims its target price 1.0% to 24.20 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
DBS trims its target price to 96.00 Hong Kong dollars from HK$98.00 and retains a buy rating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Morningstar trims its fair-value estimate for LONGi by 5% to 16.50 yuan and reduces JA’s by 15% to 12.40 yuan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
UBS keeps a neutral rating and trims its price target to A$1.40 from A$1.45.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Glamry or no glamry,” she said, approaching with a cloth, “nobody trims my glassware without paying.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Men with enormous beards that have never known the touch of a trimmer.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
From the trunk of his car, Ito retrieved the first of several tools — an orange Black & Decker weed trimmer.
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
Like Tom, Adam, who has also dealt with depression and anxiety, has his own experience of unwillingly shaving his beard after a trimmer malfunction left him with no other option.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2023
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
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
Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
There stood the trimmest and most graceful figure ever garbed in racing blouse, knickers, boots and cap, with flushed face, dilating, frightened eyes and hands not a little tremulous.
From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall
The documentary could easily have been trimmed by 10 minutes or so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hernández’s two-run homer Tuesday, in the Dodgers’ 4-0 win against the Reds, was his second home run in as many nights, as the team trimmed its magic number to clinch the division to two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The managers trimmed their overweight positions in stocks and commodities, but are keeping a large underweight in bonds, Bank of America reported.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The ceiling mural is trimmed in baby pink, which builds upon pink details in paintings on surrounding walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
They were her fancy ones, trimmed at the ankle with a specially prepared ruff of white rabbit fur.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
U.K. 30-year gilt yields last traded at 5.813%, trimming their earlier rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The brokerage also lowers its 2027-2028 interest-expense forecasts for the Thai company by 6%-11% after trimming its effective interest-rate assumption to around 3.4% from 3.65%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The move comes as other Medicare Advantage providers are curtailing markets and trimming benefits to offset rising costs in the health-insurance market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
That means leaving certain markets and trimming benefits, rather than chasing subscriber gains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
I had spread out part of the Sunday Sun and was trimming the wood down before sanding it.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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