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Recent Examples of scissorAn 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 Max Ernst collages are the type of this kind, made from many common sources—cheap advertisements in the back of the newspaper or department-store catalogue—scissored together into a new appearance of meaning.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for scissor
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?
The white shark sheared the striped bass in half, and then quickly took off.
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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.
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.
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Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
Breaking Down The Pillars Microservices The core principle of microservices involves splitting a monolithic application into multiple independent services.
Early morning stabbing in Downtown Pittsburgh sends one person to hospital
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Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
18 June 2025
Wohl allegedly tried to stab the officer, who had knife marks on his vest, sources said.
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Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
If Powell and the Fed are dovish (more rate cuts, not less), stocks could easily rip higher.
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Adam Sarhan,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Reinhart strips, dips, rips: Panthers lead, 1-0 As Brad Marchand opened the scoring in Game 5 with a fantastic individual effort, Sam Reinhart did the same for the Panthers in Game 6 with a goal that incorporated Marchand’s payoff move on his second Game 5 goal.
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