lopping

verb

present participle of lop
as in pruning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
  1. pruning
  2. trimming
  3. clipping
  4. curtailing
  5. paring
  6. cropping
  7. hacking
  8. nipping
Verb
  • States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.
    — Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of pruning
Verb
  • The younger Bolsonaro's other proposals include trimming the size of the Brazilian state to boost economic growth.
    — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
  • But new technologies are opening the door to transition a portion of the inputs from petrochemicals to plants, trimming the environmental impact of these fibers.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of trimming
Verb
  • Not your average road dog, Berlant only recently began taking a notebook onstage and clipping her work for social media.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But Jodar sealed the victory on his own serve, clipping a forehand winner down the line after Medvedev's tame smash at the net sat up nicely for him.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • Iran is now stepping up attacks on tankers transiting Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, curtailing the volume of oil exiting the region and keeping global crude prices north of $100 a barrel.
    — Lou Robinson, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Has the time come for the Dodgers to consider curtailing his pitching?
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of curtailing
Verb
  • In other stock markets abroad, indexes in Europe dipped after paring bigger losses from earlier in the day.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Since their debut in 1986, American Girl has shrunk their historical line significantly–including paring down the traditional six-book set for each historical character into two streamlined texts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of paring
Verb
  • The photo editing tools are also limited to basic actions like cropping and rotating.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
Definition of cropping
Verb
  • OpenAI has discovered several similar hacking incidents since the Hugging Face hack.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And any hacker is more likely to take the easier route, such as hacking someone’s computer to steal their encryption keys, than to try breaking the mathematics protecting them.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of hacking
Verb
  • Across the fashion week map this season, chic showgoers made slouchy leather jackets the crux of their street style looks, while models nipping between casting calls threw their own bikers over basics on the run.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
  • This is an issue that, to my mind, keeps nipping at the heels of the current crop of directorial It Boys.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of nipping
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