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Recent Examples of slivered
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
19 May 2026
Carrots and cabbage get a major upgrade with slivered almonds, golden raisins, and a tangy dressing.
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Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
7 May 2026
Pine nuts can swap out for slivered or sliced almonds, or sunflower or hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas).
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
The dish was popularized in the western Oklahoma City suburb of El Reno, where Ross Davis first piled slivered onions onto thin beef patties at his Hamburger Inn.
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Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
19 May 2026
Carrots and cabbage get a major upgrade with slivered almonds, golden raisins, and a tangy dressing.
—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
7 May 2026
Pine nuts can swap out for slivered or sliced almonds, or sunflower or hulled pumpkin seeds (pepitas).
—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slivered
Adjective
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The Armenia Alliance bloc led by former President Robert Kocharyan is hovering around 10%, while the rest of the splintered opposition remained in the mid to low single digits.
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The increasingly splintered ways in which voters seek information, fueled by the rapid changes in technology and media, has kept political campaign strategists on their toes.
Verb
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With that knife, Bland stabbed her husband in the head and neck — and, afterward, sliced her teenage daughter in the forearm as the teen tried to get Emii from Bland, the report says.
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Aranda sliced an opposite-field, three-run home run off Mikolas that caromed off the foul pole in left field to put the Rays in front 3-2 in the bottom of the third.
Adjective
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No amount of paint can hide cracked plaster, bumps, nail holes, or uneven textures.
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Never soak leather or put it in the washing machine, which can result in dry, cracked, misshapen gloves that end up in the trash.
Verb
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Right now, Amazon chopped $300 off the Omen’s usual $2,199 list price to send it under $1,900.
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But her mother, who found it unseemly for a little girl to be swinging such a thing about, chopped it off one night while my mother was asleep.
Adjective
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The split-toe design represents Nike’s first venture into the world of natural-motion footwear, and the Air Rift name comes from Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.
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San Francisco and Atlanta were forced to play a split doubleheader on Wednesday after Tuesday night’s game was suspended due to rain entering the bottom of the second inning.
Adjective
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Instead of slowly fading, as expected, these exploded stars have dramatically varied in brightness over the course of 14 years.
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If, for David Lynch, ideas are like fish in a river, then for Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, those ideas are like chunks of excrement in an exploded sewage pipe.
Adjective
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With more than a dozen varieties grown in and around SoCal, in 2026 alone, heads (of cabbage) will roll if Angelenos can’t get their fix of this vitamin-rich, potassium-laden, calcium-blasted antioxidant VIP in 2026.
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Each earbud is made from polished aluminum and housed in a pearl-blasted charging case made from natural aluminum.
Adjective
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Law enforcement noted her 2005 GMC Yukon had significant damage, including a smashed headlight and broken windshield, matching debris at the crash site.
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Photos shared by the cupcake shop shows the smashed front entrance of the store with a metal barrel on the ground surrounded by broken glass.
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“Slivered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slivered. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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