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Recent Examples of scissorIntroducing Lotus Theory 1 Design and materials The minimalist three-seater EV looks striking from every angle, especially when the doors scissor upwards and backwards to let you in.—New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2024 An entire skit written by Elaine May — ironically, a sendup of overly prudish movie censors — was scissored by the network.—Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023 While one of his younger brothers David (Harris Dickinson) sleeps in, Kevin sprints across the family’s acreage in a cropped tee and shorts, his mammoth, scissoring arms as propulsive as his pumping thighs.—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023 At the Locanda Ferrari restaurant, where diners slurped up plates of spaghetti alle vongole and compared notes on their favorite places for eel, Paola Ferrari, 61, scissored the crabs and dumped them in a pan of tomatoes, onions and herbs.—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for scissor
Someone slit his throat and bashed him over the head in Skulls Rainbow Room, which sits in Printers Alley, one of the most popular destinations in Nashville.
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Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Oct. 2025
When Rochelle Luna, 18, arrived at the house hours later, Djerf bound, gagged and raped her before stabbing her and slitting her throat, court records said.
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.
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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?
In a rare example of agency for a beneficiary community, 21 emerging Indigenous leaders recently crafted selection criteria, evaluated applicants and picked two dozen finalists to split a pool of $720,000.
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Fortune,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
The dying relative, Mitch explained, was willing to take the fall for Scott’s killing; then someone else would turn him in, claim the reward money, and split it with them.
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