as in slivers
a small flat piece separated from a whole
found a variety of uses for the spalls left over from their stonecutting operations
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Noun
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Breezy breakfasts begin with visits to the buffet selection indoors, where plates are adorned with slivers of cold meats, cheeses, and sweet pastries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026 -
Nobody of his generation is more crafty in manipulating the tiniest slivers of space.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Nvidia is the dominant seller of accelerator chips, processors designed to handle the huge amounts of data needed to create artificial intelligence models.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
25 Feb. 2026
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The results for the November-January period blew past the analyst projections that shape investors’ perceptions, as has been the case since Nvidia’s high-end chips emerged as AI’s best building blocks three years ago.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The fungus enters the body through small cuts or puncture wounds, often from rose thorns or splinters.—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Jeff Clanagan painted a picture of a landscape in which movie stardom is no longer protected by traditional channels, as attention splinters across platforms and audiences fragment.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Twin Cities,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Jagged shards of memory shown in flashbacks suggest Laura’s fear and vulnerability as a young girl (played by the filmmakers’ daughter Eliz Mundruczó), alongside indications of narcissistic, at times violent Ivan’s shortcomings as a parent.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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To make this mulch, crush broken terracotta pieces into smaller chunky shards and scatter them around snail and slug-vulnerable plants, including lettuces, hostas, or strawberries.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On the South Platte River, the gold flakes wash down from deposits high in the Rocky Mountains, carried down each spring by the rush of melting snow.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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The generous co-ed area has an aromatherapy room; infrared saunas; a snow shower, chilled to 14 degrees, that spouts icy flakes; a cold plunge; and a lap-pool-size jacuzzi.—
Roger Kisby,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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At first, the fossil fragments were misidentified and then lost to the shuffle of international museum collections.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Mastrovito's Agnus Dei features the Lamb, made of hollow glass and covered in glass fragments, suspended in the air from the cross' upper arm within a hyperboloid covered in gold leaf.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Spalls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spalls. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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