Thesaurus results for SLASHES

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verb

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present tense third-person singular of slash

as in slits

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) the tire appears to have been deliberately slashed

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as in hides

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible wildly slashing the ground with his club and never once hitting the golf ball he was aiming at

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slashes

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noun

plural of slash

as in tears

a long deep cut made a slash in the fabric with a knife

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Earlier in the film, Kenobi slashes off the arm of a creature who was known then as Walrus Man and is known now as Ponda Baba. —

Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026 Xefco claims the process slashes energy use by 90 percent, cuts emissions by up to 94 percent and produces zero wastewater. —

Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 30 Apr. 2026 At the end of each month, Amazon slashes prices on travel gear in order to clear house for the following month. —

Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026 Earlier this month, the White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2027 federal budget request, which slashes NASA's total budget by 23% and its science funding by 47%. —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026 As SpaceX slashes launch costs, governments are gaining new capabilities, while potentially outsourcing their sovereignty to Musk's private empire. —

Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026 Saks Global Enterprises won court approval to sell its Gulfstream jet that executives used for business and personal travel, as the bankrupt luxury retailer slashes debt and operating expenses. —

Steven Church, Bloomberg, 14 Apr. 2026 The proposal slashes funding to the agency’s science program by 46 percent—a cut similar to what had been proposed in the president’s budget request for the current fiscal year. —

Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2026 Through careful tuning of an extended Kalman filter and by taking advantage of bamboo’s natural vibration-damping properties, the system slashes control latency from 15–20 milliseconds down to just 8–10 milliseconds, enhancing responsiveness while keeping flight stable. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026

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To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). —

Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity. —

Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026 That segment of the show largely stripped out the guitars to focus on clubby techno and nasty slashes of synth noise. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 Remove from freezer, cut a few slashes across top of crust, and bake pie 5 minutes. —

Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 The budget includes cuts to about 568 positions, resulting in slashes to currently vacant positions but also including hundreds of layoffs. —

Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 Another concern is leakage, as two dual slashes create more opportunity for air to seep through. —

Anna Popp, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026 That people-first approach is often shown via major price slashes during holiday weekends, such as Memorial Day, offering a small but meaningful gesture to families setting out on long drives. —

Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026 We were shorthanded, taking slashes and it’s not called. —

Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026

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Two-year-old Mala Audio Bar sets its cocktails to the crackle of vintage vinyl, while Konbini hides behind a grocery storefront, opening into a Colombian-Japanese speakeasy where disco and highballs collide amid a beautiful crowd.

— Allie Lazar, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
More than 2,500 shoppers have given it a perfect rating, and reviewers appreciate that the lightweight formula hides dark circles — without settling into fine lines.

— Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026