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slivered

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verb

past tense of sliver
as in sliced
to cut into long slender pieces carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slivered
Adjective
  • In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
    Time, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Piqued by the remarkable results of the far-right National Rally in the European Parliament elections of May 2024, the French president forced a vote in which his party lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a splintered parliament.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The pizza features new deli-style pepperoni, a three-cheese blend, and signature Italian seasoning, sliced into eight extra-extra-large pieces and delivered in the restaurant's largest box yet.
    Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Hase stumbled forward, sliced the ball with her left foot and closed her eyes.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Besides being dangerous, downloading cracked software also poses legal risks.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The leather on the shoes appears to be slightly decayed, worn, cracked and brittle, while the laces and midsole are stained, giving a distressed, lived-in effect.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To honor the occasion, Reese bleached her hair and chopped it to her collarbone.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Noise of trees crackling and sap hissing, branches thumping down, timber being dragged and chopped.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The Walkabout accommodates the owners in a luxe front master's suite accessed via split sliding doors that Keystone calls the first of their kind.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Used is recording again next year Next up for The Used is a partnership with My Chemical Romance in 2026 to create a split EP, McCracken told Rolling Stone in September.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point to colliding particles of dark matter, an elusive and invisible form of matter that is believed to be five times more abundant than regular matter.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says reaching the center of the wreckage at the exploded ammunition plant will be slow and complex.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.
    Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • When the facility opened the following morning, a security guard came upon a smashed display case and realized the coins had been stolen, French media outlets reported.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Aerial video of the aftermath also showed a red helicopter on its side with a smashed cockpit window and debris scattered over the highway surface.
    Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Slivered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slivered. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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