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Verb
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This gyuto is hand-forged and features the Nashiji (pear skin) pattern, hammered into the steel to prevent food from sticking when slicing.—
Jesse Raub,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 May 2026 -
The plane hitting the water is destructive enough without the help of a jagged coral reef (improbably far from any coastline) slicing through the aircraft’s undercarriage.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Orange peels take a while to decompose, so chopping them up into smaller pieces is essential.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
25 Apr. 2026
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Risk management Josh — Trane Technologies spent most of 2025 in a grinding correction, chopping between $375 and $450 before finding its footing near the 200-day and launching a clean recovery into year-end.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2026
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However, the election itself has a more lax timeline, so Kemp could wait to schedule it until September or even November, leaving District 13 without leadership and mashing the special election up with the normal midterm election for Scott’s seat.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Often apologizing in between bites, Beard, 40, eats savagely with his hands, squeezing food and mashing it into his mouth.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Their experiments confirmed that adding a single squirt of water to coffee beans before grinding can significantly reduce the static electric charge on the resulting grounds.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Apr. 2026
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This stock was a disaster from May 2025 through the November lows near $48, losing roughly half its value in a grinding downtrend.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
27 Apr. 2026
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Really, the entrance to that hell is a shot of a vending machine full of only red Gatorade, and the sculpting work that the sound team did to blend the grating atmospheric noise of the ER, Finneas’s tense score, and the key sound effects that connect us to Ashley’s fear and pain.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2026
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The sounds of running water, hard objects (like buttons on a pair of jeans) tumbling around, and the machine's signals can be grating for those trying to sleep.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Chipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chipping. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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