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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
Everyone, even the children, have scars from where the corners of their mouths have been slit up into their cheeks, Joker-style.
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Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
27 Apr. 2025
There are no marks on the bones directly attributable to a cause of death, Green said, and the Romans typically killed their sacrifices by slitting their throats or through drowning.
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 result is a leaner, more transparent value chain that slashes transit times, anchors skilled jobs at home, and gives automakers, wind-turbine producers, battery materials manufacturers, and aerospace primes a domestic alternative to long-distance supply lines.
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William Jones,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
Read Next State Politics Plan to slash property taxes passes Idaho House.
In the southern Sierra, the dense rocks had the strongest inherent stripes and were shown to have already sheared away from the crust, whereas in the central region this process appears to be ongoing.
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Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
Nearly all the materials used to build the lodge were sourced locally: pine harvested sustainably from the surrounding forests, wool sheared from the sheep that graze in the pastures outside, stone from nearby quarries.
Rapper Tory Lanez, who is serving jail time, was hospitalized after another inmate stabbed him.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
Life outside the courtroom, however, is a bit more complicated, with Nash-Betts weeping in a hospital gown and Kardashian stabbing herself with a needle in a bathroom stall.
An 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of ripping down the flag.
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Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
12 May 2025
Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.
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