Example Sentences

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And now Optum is trimming 200,000 more people to return to tightly controlled physician networks.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

Niccol is trimming the number of different store formats Starbucks uses and scaling back the installation of costly food and cold-drink-station equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

Stewart is trimming the upholstery material's edge when a producer says, “We’re done,” but she doesn’t stop cutting.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024

Ford is trimming its planned production of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck and increasing output of the more-affordable F-150 Hybrid by 20 percent.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

Within, an old woman is trimming the ivy overspreading a grave, and there are eight or ten other mounds, all ivy or flower covered, and with low headstones.

From In and Around Berlin by Norton, Minerva Brace