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Trimmed parts of green beans

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ends

(Other definitions for ends that I've seen before include "Completes - purposes" , "Finishes (loose or dead, perhaps?)" , "They may justify the means" , "Some bowling" , "Justifications for means, sometimes?" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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