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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skive
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In a campus webinar Wednesday, Duke Executive Vice President Daniel Ennis and Antwan Lofton, its VP for human resources, summarized some of the actions Duke has taken or will be introducing in the coming weeks to shave costs.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025 -
Federal government expenditures declined 5.1% for the quarter, shaving about one-third of a percentage point off GDP.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
30 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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In Lincoln’s time, people in the town would shear their sheep, wash the fleece and card the wool using the mill.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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The show was ably organized by Evans, who whittled the initial selection from Bachardy’s prodigious archive, with Dennis Carr, Huntington chief curator of American art, and Karla Nielsen, the library’s senior curator of literary collections.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Those responses would be collected and reviewed as both parties whittle the enormous pool of people down to just 12 jurors and a handful of alternates.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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This opens up the possibility of Wycombe either clinching automatic promotion before their two rivals play, or the door being prised open for either Wrexham or Charlton to nip through and set up a nerve-wracking final day.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Case Notes • After two-quarters of a season balancing between mythical and human dangers, Dark Winds nips the question of whether Yé’iitsoh is a character or metaphor in the bud.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2025
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Progress 91 is docked to the aft port of the Roscosmos Zvezda module.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
1 May 2025
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He was ultimately docked two strokes for improved his lie in the waste area.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Four years ago, Joseph R. Biden Jr. collected $62 million (nearly $76 million in 2025 dollars) for his inauguration, though that celebration was pared down because of the coronavirus pandemic.—
Theodore Schleifer,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, the euro was choppy on Monday, paring gains against the greenback to fall 0.3% in the afternoon.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
14 Apr. 2025
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How 'Barbra's Baby' Came to Be Grown from the famous rose called 'Lasting Love', which is quick-growing, disease-resistant, and with beautiful dark red flowers, this brand new bubblegum-pink bloom was soon snipped and propagated into its very own plant.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2025
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Your cutting should be 6-8 inches long with a few sets of leaf nodes on them, snipped right below the last one.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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In recent national headlines were a fatal crash of a tour helicopter in New York, a small plane that crashed in Florida and two commercial jets that clipped wings at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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More storms in Kansas City area’s forecast The weather service said additional storms are expected to develop Thursday afternoon and evening to the north in Nebraska and Iowa, possibly clipping northern Missouri.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Skive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skive. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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