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"trim back" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It typically means to reduce or cut something short, either literally or figuratively. For example, "The city had to trim back its budget due to decreasing revenue."
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In between yearly trimmings, it will benefit your lavender bushes to trim back the blooms once they have finished blooming.
You could trim back on the regular season.
Amtrak is beginning to trim back its service, with updates being posted to amtrak.com/alerts.com/alerts
As the Tories trim back the state, they fail to address such questions.
We should trim back the welfare state — but we should also worry about fairness.
Trim back to 24 and make Europe bear most of the cuts.
Their reduced numbers, however, are unlikely to trim back Puerto Rican political dominance.
Having built a world on cheap oil, we may now need to trim back our excesses.
If so, should I move the rose bush or can I trim back the lespedeza?
Initially, all she'd done was trim back a few of the more overgrown branches.
In late summer, trim back old flower heads and 2-3cm ofoliagege to keep everything in shape.
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