as in chip
a small flat piece separated from a whole
a splint off the board
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Recent Examples of splint
Sports first-aid kit: Athletes are more likely to be injured when playing contact sports or heavily exerting themselves, which is why sports first-aid kits usually include splints, wraps, athletic tape, cold compresses and pain relievers.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
Rafaela Pimenta is wearing a beige splint over her left wrist.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Crucially, the muscles of stags that had been hunted to death contained higher levels of lactic acid, while deer from a slaughterhouse who had their limbs immobilized in a splint before their death had lower levels, suggesting that the acid was generated by physical exertion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
Splinting or bracing: Wearing a wrist splint at night can relieve pressure on the median nerve in carpal tunnel syndrome.
—Anju Goel, Health, 4 Apr. 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025
Rafaela Pimenta is wearing a beige splint over her left wrist.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Crucially, the muscles of stags that had been hunted to death contained higher levels of lactic acid, while deer from a slaughterhouse who had their limbs immobilized in a splint before their death had lower levels, suggesting that the acid was generated by physical exertion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
Splinting or bracing: Wearing a wrist splint at night can relieve pressure on the median nerve in carpal tunnel syndrome.
—Anju Goel, Health, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splint
Noun
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Messi’s deft chip over the goalkeeper and two scrambling defenders was a vintage finish from the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner.—
Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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America’s supremacy in chip designing is uncontested.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The token slivers of human-interest drama (a divorce battle, a visit to the pediatrician) that are meant to counterpoint the possibility of Armageddon with the oh-so-ironic triviality of quotidian concerns.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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Obviously, the overall deliveries are instrumental in establishing the average unit cost for each 30-second sliver of airtime, but when a half-minute is commanding $8 million a pop, there’s only so much extra dough that can be squeezed out of the Big Game’s sponsors.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The butterfly-open design gives quick access to tweezers for bee stings or wooden splinters, and sharp scissors for clipping trail tape or loose threads—all while staying impressively lightweight.—
Brandon Schultz,
Travel + Leisure,
17 July 2025
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Communities that ignore the first crack pay dearly when the whole block splinters.—
Edgar Domenech,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Police and shark biologists are analyzing Psillakis’s body and fragments of his surfboard, as well as speaking with witnesses, to determine the shark species, 9News added.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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The team's model demonstrated that turbulence, or irregular motion, in giant collapsing gas clouds can form lower-mass cloud fragments from which lower-mass stars condense.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Did a Smurl sister really vomit bloody glass shards?—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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But there are also flashes of visual splendor, like tiny shards of some kind of exotic broken vase — fragments of what could have been.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In a jar or salad dressing shaker, stir together almond butter, garlic, rice vinegar, sesame oil, coconut aminos, lime juice and red pepper flakes.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Either way, Grandma’s ambrosia salad, made with fresh fruit, coconut flakes, and sometimes mini marshmallows, was always a highlight of holiday gatherings.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Splint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splint. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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