The NeoTards will have to be pruned from the party if it is ever to rise again. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Roundup: GOP in trouble?] Reference
Later, the nerves are "pruned" to eliminate those that have made no useful ties. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I would assume that if you prune a topic manually or automatically, that it will be pruned, meaning deleted. From Wordnik.com. [phpBB.com] Reference
Google Image Search, which we then "pruned" using efficient image matching and unsupervised clustering techniques. From Wordnik.com. [The Official Google Blog] Reference
These variables were "pruned" using an automated stepwise procedure for optimizing the Akaike information criterion. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
They said the show needed to be 'pruned' to avoid making viewers 'sit through' almost two-and-a-half hours of dancing. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal] Reference
They found that in these mice, dendritic spines form normally, but do not mature properly and aren't "pruned" as they need to be. From Wordnik.com. [Biosingularity] Reference
He used to swim in the pool until his skin pruned. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Pool Party] Reference
Some of them have to be very systematically pruned away. From Wordnik.com. [The Sooner the Better] Reference
It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah] Reference
MR. POMEROY: It seems to me that I have always pruned at any time. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
I pruned a walnut tree one spring and it very nearly bled to death. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
The trees are pruned in circles, leaving an empty space in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The fact that this elaboration of the sap in long-pruned vines requires. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The reason seems to be that extraneous neuronal branchings get pruned back. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Expansion: Inside The Teenage Brain] Reference
The shady precincts of which Lampron wrote did not seem to have been pruned. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Vines are carefully pruned so that clusters of grapes hang below grape leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Long Island's North Fork] Reference
Alas, were she not sometimes pruned and trimmed, her boughs would stand too thick. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Zoller then pruned for companies in the information technology and health care industries. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Connected Capitalists] Reference
Joe Brunetti keeps the sweet basil pruned back at the Smithsonian's Victory Garden on the Mall. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Beguiled by basil] Reference
Bodhipala denies wrongdoing, saying the tree was pruned in 1977, long before he became involved. From Wordnik.com. [Big Trouble Under The Banyan Tree] Reference
The parietal lobes reach their gray-matter peak at 10 (girls) or 12 (boys), and are then pruned. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Inside A Teen Brain] Reference
They seem to be much more susceptible to the disease when pruned up in this neat orchard fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
We talked a bit, trying to make sense of this convoluted, many-branched, pruned and grafted family tree. From Wordnik.com. [Relatively Speaking] Reference
In typical kids, certain connections in the brain grow stronger over time, while others are pruned away. From Wordnik.com. [Determining 'Brain Age' With A Simple Scan] Reference
During the next ten years orders for scions were so numerous that the old tree was kept pretty well pruned. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference
Lorrie crinkles her face while she says this, trying to resemble her grandmother's pruned face and sharp voice. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Mothers] Reference
"But father always pruned his trees when they were in blossom -- they can't any of them bear a peach for every bloom.". From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
But it should be borne in mind that long pruning is indispensable for it, as it gives very poor crops when pruned short. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Farther south, Tom McEvoy, a Coral Gables police officer, had taped the windows and pruned the trees of his Cutler Ridge house. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
Then there is the "trellising" style, for the long-pruned varieties, in which the vine is trained to a great distance along a wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Over the three-hour pageant, the 51 contestants became 20, then the 20 were pruned to 10, and finally, the 10 were whittled to five. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Miss America] Reference
We found that if grapes are pruned at a certain time in the spring they will bleed profusely, and sometimes actually bleed to death. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
They are the very opposite, and they don't want to be pruned, and if you go pruning them, they are likely to have the witches'-broom. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
And how he had always loved to prune speech drafts and proclamations, just as he pruned the live oaks and madronas at Rancho del Cielo!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye'] Reference
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