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How to use the word pruning in a Sentence?

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Sometimes pruning occurs, that's where the [ correction in times of stress comes from ]. You prune a plant so that it's even healthier when it comes out from its pruning.

Charlie Hall

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Pruning is an essential part of brain development, disruption in normal pruning has been shown to be related to weaker connections between different parts of the brain.

Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our study has found a significant decrease in gray matter pruning in the frontal default mode network, which is involved in higher cognitive functions, such as the planning and controlling of social behaviors.

Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This pruning of our portfolio ... will continue in 2016 and 2017.

Kurt Bock

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

European return on leverage exposure is roughly half that of U.S. firms. Pruning underperforming units, intense cost-cutting and revitalising high return-on-equity (RoE) area will be key.

Morgan Stanley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

“All is in God’s will. The deeper you look, the more you understand that this is so. All sorrows are sent us to free us from our sins or as a test of our faith, an example to others. It requires good food to make plants grow properly and the gardener, walking through His garden, wants to be pleased with His flowers. If they do not grow properly, he takes His pruning knife, and cuts, waiting for the sunshine to coax them into growth again”…

Alexandra Feodorovna

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Sir Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Natural abilities are like natural plants they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fuller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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