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"we trimmed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of cutting away at something, such as a body of text, to make it smaller or to make it fit better. For example, "We trimmed down the article to make it shorter."
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We trimmed trees.
We trimmed turnips.
So we trimmed a room, reduced the size and put in the new plans.
Last year we trimmed the list to 100 and have done so again this year.
They refused to raise the debt ceiling until we trimmed the budget.
It was orginally 6 inches long, but we trimmed it to be as small as possible, meaning the length of the MCU carrier board.
For the Sanganji Jomon sequences, different numbers of bases were trimmed in each sample based on transition rates; in sample A1, we trimmed the first and last 10 bases because this sample had more transversion substitutions at the end of sequence reads compared with sample A2 and B, whereas we trimmed only five bases in sample A2 and B. For the archaic humans, we trimmed five bases.
We trimmed dill sprigs and pea pods, cut curly leaves of lemon basil and parsley and pulled up long, slender, blaze orange carrots.
We trimmed back.
We trimmed Microsoft.
Based on these criteria we trimmed it down to 277 articles.
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