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
  • The killer slit Catherine's throat with a razor so severely that her head was nearly severed before striking them both with an axe, per the Times-Picayune.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The next morning, when Morse arrived for work, Nicholson stabbed her repeatedly and slit her throat before placing her body inside a large plastic bin in the kitchen pantry, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The biggest test may be in Virginia, which is home to many federal workers impacted by the government shutdown and efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to slash agencies.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the wake of the results, reported late Thursday, several Wall Street firms slashed their price targets.
    Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Remove top and slice into pieces for dipping; set aside.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The pizza features new deli-style pepperoni, a three-cheese blend, and signature Italian seasoning, sliced into eight extra-extra-large pieces and delivered in the restaurant's largest box yet.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • While there was a myth that lesbians don’t actually scissor, that has since been debunked.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Some of these mountainsides have dislodged themselves deep in the bedrock, causing the face of a mountain to shear clean off — as has happened at least twice in the last two years.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Moreover, plastic pulverization produces fine solids; keeping the enzyme in contact with all surfaces without shearing it to inactivity is an active research topic.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes lightning hits the mountainside and splits or burns a tree.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Jeanty, initially lined up in the right slot, motioned into the backfield, leaving Bowers and wide receiver Jakobi Meyers lined up to that side, with receivers Tyler Lockett and Tre Tucker split to the left.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The veteran coach believes the solution to the problem is to cut some games off the 82-game schedule, a view shared by Cleveland Cavaliers coach (and former Kerr assistant) Kenny Atkinson, who recently advocated for a 72-game season.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The 10-year Treasury yield was little changed Friday following this week’s interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve and the central bank’s more hawkish tone on future policy.
    Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Hacksaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacksaw. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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