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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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For an easy way to create Parmesan slices instead of grated cheese, simply use a potato peeler to shave thin strips directly from the wedge.—
Linda Gassenheimer,
Boston Herald,
20 May 2026
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One French director, Xavier Gens, told Reuters here that AI tools could have cut the visual effects budget of his Netflix hit Under Paris in half and shaved eight months off the schedule.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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Anchusa plants look better and self-seed less if sheared back after flowering.—
Marie Iannotti,
The Spruce,
9 May 2026
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Up next was pineapple, its spikes thoughtfully sheared smooth and cut into spears.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 May 2026
Verb
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After much discussion, the council whittled that list down to three options before asking staffers to conduct more research before the council decides whether to put those choices to voters.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
13 May 2026
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Crystal Palace, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest have all made their excuses and left the fight for Premier League survival, whittling it down to just two potential candidates to join Burnley and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Championship next season.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Exactly one year after nipping Marist in the state finals at Duluth’s Cecil Morris Field, the Blessed Trinity Titans did it again in an identical manner, edging Marist 1-0 in the GHSA Class 4A girls’ soccer state championship game on Friday night.—
Jeff Gable,
AJC.com,
16 May 2026
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But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud.—
Tim Balk Danny Hakim Michelle Litvin Luke Broadwater,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
Verb
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Artemis 3 is planned for late 2027, and will launch NASA's Orion capsule with a crew of astronauts to rendezvous and dock with Starship in LEO to assess the spacecrafts' ability to link up in orbit.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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Astronauts will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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Because of its reusable first stage and payload fairing, SpaceX has pared back internal launch costs to about $15 million.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday finalized its proposal from February to pare back the requirements that ACA plans have to meet beginning for 2027, like offering standardized plans and restricting high-deductible, catastrophic plans to a small subset of members.—
Tara Bannow,
STAT,
18 May 2026
Verb
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Aaron left the hospital and drove to a local Walmart, entering the store with his formerly bare feet now cloaked in surgery booties, and purchased hedge trimmers big enough to snip down the branch.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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So don't be shy about snipping off leaves for your projects.—
Melissa Epifano,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
Verb
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In multiple cases, other road users struck the autonomous vehicle from behind or clipped it while passing.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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The Cavs may clip the Pistons in Game 7 on Sunday, even on the road.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Skive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skive. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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