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Example sentences for: shave

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The WP finds one who says the problems with Asia's currencies could shave two-tenths of a percentage point off the growth of the U.S.
It's true that Pierce's "altruistic" impulse is not on par with Travis Bickle's impulse to shave his head and assassinate a presidential candidate, but Schrader and Scorsese don't view his actions with any irony.
We then compute the inner product (essentially the correlation) of each gene with the eigen gene, and discard ('shave off') a fraction of the genes having lowest (absolute) inner product.
Just as the promotional copy promises, I am able to shave with fewer strokes.
Mailer participation in developing the public evidentiary record was responsible in part for enabling the Commission to shave some $750 million---almost one third---off of the Service's request for additional revenue.