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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
That's when the state is planning to put Ralph Menzies to death for the murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit nearly 40 years ago.
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
When Rochelle Luna, 18, arrived at the house hours later, Djerf bound, gagged and raped her before stabbing her and slitting her throat, the brief 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?
While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.
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Denver Nicks,
Rolling Stone,
14 Sep. 2025
The sharp drop in mortgage rates owes in part to government data showing a significant decline in hiring, which has heightened expectations that the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates and in turn put downward pressure on borrowing costs, some analysts told ABC News.
The frigid air sliced through the open windows, bit the tips of my ears and my runny nose.
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Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Under Glasner, Palace have built attacks quickly to slice through the opponents, with Mateta either linking the moves or dashing forward to be in a goalscoring position.
Late last month, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed on a train in North Carolina.
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Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Instead, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while riding a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train home from work.
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Peter D'Abrosca , Stepheny Price , Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
The drought grew to 41 2/3 innings before Crim ripped JP Sears’ first-pitch sweeper 439 feet to left-center, scoring Hunter Goodman and Jordan Beck, who opened the fourth with back-to-back singles.
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Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
Cubs designated hitter Moisés Ballesteros ripped his first career home run right at Rizzo, who stepped up on top of the bleacher seats to make a play.
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