SLIVERS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

slivers 1 of 2

noun

plural of sliver

as in shards

a small flat piece separated from a whole I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger

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slivers

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of sliver

as in slices

to cut into long slender pieces carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry

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Recent Examples of slivers

Noun

The play was a microcosm of the ability Harvey showcased during his rookie season to turn small slivers of space into big plays. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Although the wealthy Gulf oil states and small slivers of Arab elites flourished within this system, for most people the American order meant only violence, hopelessness, and deprivation. — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Combining the compelling crunch and taste of a macaroon cookie with slivers of chocolate in a dreamy churn, Toasted Coconut Chip won Flavor of the Year in 2026. — Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2026 This flaky white fish looks like a gourmet dish when served over a bed of couscous and dressed with mixed greens and colorful radish slivers. — Jasmine Thompson, Midwest Living, 25 July 2026 This white and pink ombré set is elevated with gold slivers to outline each nail. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 June 2026 Arranged over the top are dollops of crema and slivers of pickled yellow squash. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 And moments, by definition, are tiny slivers in time. — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 Instead of being rolled, the enchiladas are stacked with slivers of tortilla, then topped with the familiar glob of cheese. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for slivers

Noun

Every piece — the pleated wrap top, the shorts adorned with trailing shards of silk chiffon — was hand-dyed or painted and then covered in Swarovski crystals.

— Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Space-grade electronics will cost more, and the ball’s shell—made from a material tough enough to roll over steel shards and withstand minus 184 °C temperatures—has never been evaluated in lunar extremes.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of shards

Verb

You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently, since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.

— Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
That line slices the plane into two halves, one of which will contain two corners of the outer triangle (the bottom half in the figure below).

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of slices

Noun

And as part of a deal to secure export licenses for advanced chips from the US government, HUMAIN will not allow Chinese frontier AI models to be trained on its compute capacity.

— Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
As chips and processors became more powerful, retail trading platforms could process and display increasingly large amounts of market data.

— Brian Lund, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of chips

Noun

People who have lived even fragments of freedom together are harder to persuade that domination is eternal.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Sarah then puts her life as an activist and artist in 1990s San Francisco on hold to return to her small hometown to spend time with mother as her mind fragments.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of fragments

Noun

There were small tables that needed gluing, and there was always clothing to be mended, and, on this day, a lawn chair whose shredded side pieces were being replaced with unmatching but whimsical bits of material.

— Lydia Davis, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
Some of the best bits are when there is no violence at all, said Jo Lawson-Tancred on Artnet.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of bits

Noun

Alcaraz sensed the dip and sent him running east and west along the baseline, breaking him for the first time since late in the first set by outlasting him on one of those corner-to-corner scraps.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Historically, retail investors got IPO scraps as companies focused on getting shares into the hands of patient institutions, but that’s changing.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of scraps

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