hacksaw

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hacksaw
Verb
  • No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Verb
  • Then, the family members would drag their victim to a hidden cellar on the property and slit the victim’s throat, leaving them there to die.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 June 2025
  • In April 2006, Stanko, 57, beat and strangled girlfriend Laura Ling to death and raped her teenage daughter and slit her throat.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • In March, Standard Chartered slashed its ether price target by more than half.
    Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 20 June 2025
  • This can slash down response times and aid agents because they won’t get bogged down by simple, repetitive requests.
    Nataliia Onyshkevych, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Most of these pristine hailstones go directly to a cold lab in Colorado, where they are sliced with a hot wire band saw.
    Seth Borenstein, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
  • The pair later sliced into a two-tiered wedding cake topped with fresh grapes and figs.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Boomers’ children aren’t getting hitched as easily, and those who do are less likely to split up.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 June 2025
  • That allowed Igor Jesus to put Botafogo in front to stay shortly before the intermission, splitting a pair of PSG defenders to run on to Jefferson Savarino’s perfectly weighted through ball, then beating keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from the top of the box.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • At its base definition, scissoring is just about genital-to-genital stimulation, so anyone interested in doing so can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The white shark sheared the striped bass in half, and then quickly took off.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2025
  • The California coast typically benefits from cooler water that flows southward along the coast and winds that tend to either shear the tops off hurricanes or push them westward away from the coast.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • The prospect of trying to cut open a stubborn 5-4-1 block in the Orlando heat could have become torturous quite quickly.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • In February, the agency announced plans to cut 7,000 of the agency’s 57,000 employees ‒ more than 10% of staff ‒ in response to President Trump’s executive orders.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 27 June 2025
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“Hacksaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacksaw. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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