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Noun
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Using an Analog Rytm saturator and a few choice plug-ins, Luke Fenton approaches sung snippets like wet clay, endlessly moldable with a little osmosis.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026 -
Record labels are doing this too, getting clippers to pair compelling video snippets with artists’ songs on places like TikTok, all in the hopes that the song is going to blow up.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Upon impact, cannonballs would have sent wooden splinters flying like debris from grenades.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Strong storms are also possible in northern Oklahoma, central Kansas and slivers of Arkansas and Missouri.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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How much America’s Culinary Cup relies on head-to-head cook-offs to send people home gives all those slivers of information a little more urgency, though.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Ice chunks were also moving through nearby Mullett Lake.—
Sarah Brumfield,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Working with the Calling All Dreamers advisors, Christine Wonderson is figuring how to break the business down into more achievable chunks, rather than trying to do everything at once.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This includes soaring gas prices at the pump, seesawing stock markets, rising food and fertilizer prices, higher shipping-insurance costs, and fuel shortages that have touched off violence, work stoppages, and profiteering in parts of Asia and Africa.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Very little offends me in a moral sense in the theater, but parts of this script came close.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Though chaotic, the collection is organized by Conor’s interests, with anime, Irish cinema and horror some of its most densely populated sections.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The film was awarded a special mention within the framework of the Caméra d’Or prize, covering all first films debuting across the Official Selection and parallel sections.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Evidence from deregulated market segments shows that removing these regulations would cut the same premiums substantially.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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It’s structured as a rondo, in which an initial or main melody is repeated in between one or more contrasting segments.—
Brian Duignan,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Clippings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clippings. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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