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Recent Examples of scissorAn entire skit written by Elaine May — ironically, a sendup of overly prudish movie censors — was scissored by the network.—Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023 While one of his younger brothers David (Harris Dickinson) sleeps in, Kevin sprints across the family’s acreage in a cropped tee and shorts, his mammoth, scissoring arms as propulsive as his pumping thighs.—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023 At the Locanda Ferrari restaurant, where diners slurped up plates of spaghetti alle vongole and compared notes on their favorite places for eel, Paola Ferrari, 61, scissored the crabs and dumped them in a pan of tomatoes, onions and herbs.—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023 Max Ernst collages are the type of this kind, made from many common sources—cheap advertisements in the back of the newspaper or department-store catalogue—scissored together into a new appearance of meaning.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for scissor
Its striking foliage has holes and slits in it, sort of like slices of Swiss cheese does, hence the plant’s nickname.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Jan. 2025
Sensing no use for them, Red Feather’s warriors slit their throats — except for the throat of the one with the steely gaze and defiant words to match: Abish.
No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
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Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
17 Jan. 2025
The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
Boeing executives have already disclosed plans to slash 17,000 jobs and cut costs everywhere from company travel to corporate events.
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Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2025
Climate activists who were targeted by hackers say the plot that U.S. officials have been trying to unravel was aimed at disrupting their efforts to fight climate change by pushing governments and society to slash the use of fossil fuels like oil and coal.
An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.
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Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
28 Jan. 2025
Former chair and party finance director Fred Whitaker said understanding why some voters split their tickets and show ideological inconsistencies is crucial to making gains.
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Hanna Kang,
Orange County Register,
27 Jan. 2025
Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early in the fourth, Leonard sat on the bench.
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Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Instead of stopping with the wall, Martin and his representatives said, his contractor kept slicing, also taking the top off that previously intact 46-foot length of the bluff next to it.
In floor remarks Saturday morning, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer ripped into the Trump administration for the move, saying that the dismissals are a possible violation of federal law.
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Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
25 Jan. 2025
His logic for ripping Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark for doing nothing more than watching a Chiefs game made no sense at all.
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