as in chip
a small flat piece separated from a whole
I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger
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Recent Examples of sliver
Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
The four-county unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, up a sliver from 4.8% in both the previous month and a year earlier.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 June 2025
Peter Burke, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
This all comes despite a setback in October with an E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on its Quarter Pounders.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
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Noun
That's outside the 7th District, which is comprised of all or part of Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Livingston and Shiawassee counties and a sliver of Oakland County.
—Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
The four-county unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, up a sliver from 4.8% in both the previous month and a year earlier.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 28 June 2025
Verb
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in November that slivered onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers were the probable source of an E. coli outbreak that prompted the fast-food restaurant chain to temporarily stop selling the menu item.
—Peter Burke, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
This all comes despite a setback in October with an E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on its Quarter Pounders.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sliver
Noun
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Rare earth is part of this story, as is AI, chip making, tariffs, the dollar as reserve currency… the list goes on and on.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Despite a $20 billion investment in new chip factories and billions in federal funding, Intel reported significant losses and leadership changes.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
Verb
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Gently press down on each sandwich, then slice in half.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
19 July 2025
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But what happened next was outright pain: The visceral sensation of a scalpel slicing her skin and tearing across her abdomen.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
16 July 2025
Noun
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Not even fragments of bones showed up in their feces, the team found.—
Mark Price
July 11,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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The injury was severe -- a complete break across her femur with multiple fragments.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Any line, any poem, can only be made of shards and grains.—
Cindy Juyoung Ok
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Pure Heroine is so effective, and why Melodrama can feel at once like walking across shards of glass and experiencing an euphoric release.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
Noun
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During this period, Hamas emerged as a powerful splinter of the Muslim Brotherhood movement with the aim of destroying Israel and establishing an Islamist Palestinian state.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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Indeed, the newly fragmented world that Trump is creating could very well splinter climate standards and clean technology supply chains.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Sliver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sliver. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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