scissored; scissoring
ˈsi-zə-riŋ 
ˈsiz-riŋ
: to cut, cut up, or cut off with scissors or shears
scissored the paper into strips
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Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
The over 300-year-old brand has provided ergonomic designs to its scissors, sewing tools, and gardening essentials which reduce joint pain and muscle fatigue.
—Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
The comedy could be on the goofy side of dada, as when the percussionist and vocalist played rhythms with scissors.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
More:Clinton Township fire, explosion site still smolders as debris found 2 miles away
Krebs replaced the flag again, and then last Saturday, the suspects in the white Jeep returned with scissors to cut the flag from the flagpole.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
Photos and video show Castro on a scissor lift, wheeling his way toward the nearly 2,000-pound load that was suspended 16 feet into the air.
—Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
For higher floors, the robot drives on to a scissor lift that raises it up.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
As both queens refuse to back down from their first choice, Plane Jane finally breaks the tension by calling for a high-stakes game of rock, paper, scissors for the role.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
The British automaker, known for two-seat convertibles with a high coolness quotient, serves this vehicle up with scissor doors and rear haunches that convey power.
—James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
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
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Her book recalls the photomontages of Hannah Höch, in which objects, text, and images from the German media are scissored up and juxtaposed, producing unexpected scenarios that feel all the more truthful for their strangeness.
—Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
His legs scissored apart in soaring full splits, the unbound flexibility delivering an extra sensation of vigor and freedom.
—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
Noun
Plus, the scissors have a nonslip curved handle that’s comfortable to hold, according to shoppers.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
The over 300-year-old brand has provided ergonomic designs to its scissors, sewing tools, and gardening essentials which reduce joint pain and muscle fatigue.
—Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
The comedy could be on the goofy side of dada, as when the percussionist and vocalist played rhythms with scissors.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
More:Clinton Township fire, explosion site still smolders as debris found 2 miles away
Krebs replaced the flag again, and then last Saturday, the suspects in the white Jeep returned with scissors to cut the flag from the flagpole.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
Photos and video show Castro on a scissor lift, wheeling his way toward the nearly 2,000-pound load that was suspended 16 feet into the air.
—Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
For higher floors, the robot drives on to a scissor lift that raises it up.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
As both queens refuse to back down from their first choice, Plane Jane finally breaks the tension by calling for a high-stakes game of rock, paper, scissors for the role.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Feb. 2024
The British automaker, known for two-seat convertibles with a high coolness quotient, serves this vehicle up with scissor doors and rear haunches that convey power.
—James Brooks and Jamey Keaten, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
Verb
An 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
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
Her book recalls the photomontages of Hannah Höch, in which objects, text, and images from the German media are scissored up and juxtaposed, producing unexpected scenarios that feel all the more truthful for their strangeness.
—Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019
His legs scissored apart in soaring full splits, the unbound flexibility delivering an extra sensation of vigor and freedom.
—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
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