Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chipping
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As consumers looked for other low-cost substitutes, prices rose for other types of slicing tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026 -
Bake about 1 hour and 10 minutes until set, then cool before slicing.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
9 June 2026
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If chopping garlic yourself is practical for you, chefs say whole heads are almost always worth the extra effort.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Martha Stewart,
13 June 2026
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Just six months after the release of his pal George Lucas’s laser-blasting, arm-chopping Star Wars, Spielberg swooped in with a gentler, more awestruck take on extraterrestrials – and one that manages to keep them offscreen for the majority of its runtime.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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Severance star Zach Cherry hit the Deadline Studio at SXSW London this week with director Jason James to discuss genre-mashing romcom-thriller-noir All Night Wrong which premiered at the festival.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
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The 20-year-old infielder is also capable of mashing against both right- and left-handed pitching.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
2 June 2026
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If the story of the past two years was one of slow, grinding forward progress for Russia,the story of this year is very different.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2026
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Nine crucial years of expansion and solidification of the pernicious institution went by, speeding the nation’s road toward a grinding war.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Moore is the grating living embodiment of the delusions of the managerial-artistic class.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
23 May 2026
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The traditional dish is laplap, made by grating cassava or taro, mixing it with coconut milk, wrapping it in banana leaves and slow-cooking it over hot stones in an earthen oven.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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“Chipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chipping. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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