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chipping

verb

present participle of chip

as in slicing

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Our two Indonesian terrorists/arms dealers take turns slicing jumbo-size leaves of flesh off of Reacher’s leaking husk.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
Throwing off-platform, Jackson hit Flowers in stride, and Flowers did the rest, slicing through the defense with electric speed for the touchdown.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of slicing

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Santoku knives are great for a large variety of tasks, and are often prized for their daily use for things like slicing cheese, cutting an apple, breaking down an onion, or chopping herbs.

— Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
Instead of chopping an object into billions of tiny digital cubes, the system mathematically embeds the boundaries and material densities into quantum states.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

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This is what a clever Fair food looks like, mashing classics together in a really simple way.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Aug. 2026
The idea of mashing avocado onto bread wasn’t new then—the Australian chef Bill Granger had been doing it since the 90s, and home cooks had surely arrived at the pairing on their own.

— Mary Holland, Air Mail, 22 Aug. 2026

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Early in-person voting opened Friday in Virginia and other states, launching a six-week sprint that will decide control of Congress amid a grinding Iran war and soaring living costs.

— Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
The staff was washing meat cutting and grinding equipment and skipping the sanitizer step.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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The rest are grating, like a never-ending gag about Gillian traveling with two heavy suitcases that make going up stairs difficult.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Then push the zucchini through the large holes of your box grater or plane grater, starting from the top of the grating surface and moving your zucchini to the bottom.

— Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2026

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