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Recent Examples of skive
The graduation ceremony and the reception afterward are cute and heartwarming for the grown-ups, bittersweet and mortifying for the kids, who skive off to smoke some of Ed’s high-test weed and have a little Texas Forever moment, toasting their enduring friendships.
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skive
Verb
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Each man staked a wrestler, and the winner would shave the loser’s hair.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Amor & Droga [SOL] Even though she’s gone head-to-head on a track with Madonna and shaved her head onstage at FKA twigs’ Body High tour, Tokischa continues to find new ways to establish herself as one of neoperreo’s ballsiest torchbearers.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The communications pole that was sheared in the April 2025 crash that left 19-year-old Preston Obeidin dead near Temecula.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Either shear the whole plant by a third or selectively cut withered flowers and leggy stems.—
Teresa Woodard,
Midwest Living,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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This, in turn, will whittle stream flows.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Vegas Golden Knights, the team directly ahead of the Kings in the Pacific Division standings, have lost six of their last 10, whittling their lead to four points over the Kings in the battle for the division’s third and final postseason berth.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In 1968, an overzealous pup nipped a postman delivering mail to Balmoral Castle.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
19 Apr. 2026
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But with the best players in the world nipping at his Nikes, McIlroy proved otherwise.—
Stan Awtrey,
AJC.com,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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It is expected to run more than 90 percent of its towing and docking operations with zero emissions.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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Naples is also a major hub for cruise ships, which dock at the Stazione Marittima on the waterfront.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Oil futures pared earlier gains.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
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But when Zbur and others presented it to the Assembly’s Natural Resources Committee, the scope had been pared back to include only Santa Monica.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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With every petal peeled and stem snipped, Phoebe Rupp, Maddie Cofer and Ava Sudbeck are assembling their masterpieces.—
Bo Evans,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Verb
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It was not known which way Woods was leaning before his SUV clipped the back of a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck on a residential road in Florida, turning his vehicle on its side.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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It was not known which way Woods was leaning when his SUV clipped the back of a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck on a residential road in Florida, turning his SUV on its side.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Skive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skive. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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