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Recent Examples of chopping
Chill the Snickers bars in the fridge for 15 to 30 minutes before chopping.
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Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
The top streamer surprised supporters with an appearance from legendary hitmaker Mariah Carey as the two spent a fun evening chopping it up and entertaining his viewers together.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
This year’s annual cast-trimming seems to have struck some fans particularly hard, what with the popular Walker, Longfellow, Emil Wakim and Heidi Gardner among producer Lorne Michaels’ chopping-block heads.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Among the changes being discussed are chopping debate time for a nominee from two hours to 15 minutes, eliminating altogether the vote to limit debate, or allowing nominees who receive bipartisan support in committee to head straight to the floor for a final vote.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
Not far away, a group of shirtless fishermen were chopping and descaling their catch around a table.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
The coming end of Grad Plus is likely to affect different graduate programs very differently, but education experts expect more termination of programs than chopping of tuition.
—Fiona Riley, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The contest on day 34 had the final six separated into two teams of three that would race across a series of seesaws and up and through a cargo net tower before digging up a hatchet and chopping a rope.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Here was an example of humans’ chopping, razing, paving, crushing ways that have mortally wounded the natural world.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
The top streamer surprised supporters with an appearance from legendary hitmaker Mariah Carey as the two spent a fun evening chopping it up and entertaining his viewers together.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
This year’s annual cast-trimming seems to have struck some fans particularly hard, what with the popular Walker, Longfellow, Emil Wakim and Heidi Gardner among producer Lorne Michaels’ chopping-block heads.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Among the changes being discussed are chopping debate time for a nominee from two hours to 15 minutes, eliminating altogether the vote to limit debate, or allowing nominees who receive bipartisan support in committee to head straight to the floor for a final vote.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
Not far away, a group of shirtless fishermen were chopping and descaling their catch around a table.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
The coming end of Grad Plus is likely to affect different graduate programs very differently, but education experts expect more termination of programs than chopping of tuition.
—Fiona Riley, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The contest on day 34 had the final six separated into two teams of three that would race across a series of seesaws and up and through a cargo net tower before digging up a hatchet and chopping a rope.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Here was an example of humans’ chopping, razing, paving, crushing ways that have mortally wounded the natural world.
—Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chopping
Verb
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Let stand until glaze firms up, about 15 minutes, before slicing and serving.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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The line will run along the Interstate 15 corridor, slicing through the San Bernardino Mountains and across the desert.—
Ben Jones,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Backlash from economists Economists aren’t mincing their words about Antoni’s credentials.—
Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
17 Aug. 2025
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John Leguizamo is not mincing words in addressing Dean Cain‘s recent decision to join ICE.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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After six largely fruitless seasons in New York, Jones looked like — whisper — one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL in Week 1, dicing up the Dolphins for 272 yards and three total TDs.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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Rather than efficiently dicing and slicing your produce, a dull knife actually requires more force, which can cause you or someone else in your household to get hurt.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Even the normally surefire element of a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with its blasts of dissonance pumping up the squirm factor, adds to the heavy-going effect of a movie that seems to go out of its way to be grating.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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But watching their unfinished work sit among the swells is grating, Crowley said.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Chopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chopping. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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