skiving

verb

present participle of skive
as in whittling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skiving
  1. whittling
  2. shaving
  3. shearing
  4. pruning
  5. cutting
  6. paring
  7. trimming
  8. cropping
Verb
  • The film eventually ballooned to six hours before Gibney began whittling it back.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Voters set up races for four Orange County commission seats in November by whittling casts of candidates to two in districts 2, 6, 7 and 8.
    — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of whittling
Verb
  • Men in some communities stop shaving, while women may remove their jewelry.
    — Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Like almost winning a race, almost shaving a second off my time for the 3200m run, my event in high school, the one that got me into college, a recruit for someone else to gamble on.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of shaving
Verb
  • As a member of the mint family, horehound has the tendency to spread aggressively, but this can be prevented by shearing the inconspicuous flowers, which is also done to expose the evergreen foliage.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Cut individual branches rather than shearing the shrub like a hedge.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of shearing
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  • 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
  • Leslie took issue with a recent stunt Kennedy had pulled at the hospital, which involved making a surprise appearance for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open his signature vaccine injury clinic.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images American Express is cutting thousands of employees as the leading credit card company prepares for artificial intelligence to take over more of its internal processes.
    — Hugh Son, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of cutting
Verb
  • Shares were last down under 2%, paring losses after declining more than 6% in early trading Wednesday.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of paring
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
  • 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
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