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splinter

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verb

as in to slice
to cut into long slender pieces splintered the carrots into little sticks

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Recent Examples of splinter
Noun
In 1985, movies made for and about kids had a few more splinters. Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor — Bare. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
The Carters returned home to Georgia in 1981 and joined Maranatha Baptist, a congregation that splintered off from Plains Baptist Church, where Carter grew up attending, following a vote at Plains Baptist to prohibit Black members. Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024 But through the lens of grief, the arrow of time splintered into a constellation of scattered, moving points. Ida Momennejad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for splinter 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splinter
Noun
  • America may have bought itself time with restrictions on chip exports, but its AI lead just shrank dramatically despite those actions.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • To be precise: bison liver pate with sweet onion jam on a puffed garlic chip.
    Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The producing credit itself has been sliced and diced and watered down.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Enjoy it as a side dish or slice and serve it over pasta, potatoes, chicken, or steak.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Reality check: Data center jobs still make up a sliver of U.S. employment overall.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Media access is meticulously controlled, leaving only slivers of time to photograph practice or conduct interviews.
    Monty Davis, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The trailer shows squabbles between contestants, a cutting board getting chopped in half and other tense moments.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • But in December, the Fed forecast two quarter-point rate cuts in 2025 after inflation readings were higher than expected and the labor market remained sturdy, providing less urgency for the Fed to chop rates.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • After a seven-year voyage, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule of about 120 grams of precious asteroid fragments into the Utah desert in September 2023.
    Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The Tacoma’s exterior plastic was melted and its front bumper reduced to fragments, but the truck’s engine bay remained largely unscathed.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Former chair and party finance director Fred Whitaker said understanding why some voters split their tickets and show ideological inconsistencies is crucial to making gains.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Those shards, smaller than the eye can see, were concentrated in the walls of arteries and veins of brain as well as in the brain’s immune cells.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Huge flakes were falling, there were eight inches of fresh snow, the trees were covered.
    Shauna Farnell, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Get the Recipe What to do with the leftovers: Heat some seasoned chickpeas in a skillet, add a few fillets of firm white fish, transfer to a low oven and bake just until the fish flakes with a fork.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 29 Jan. 2025

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“Splinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splinter. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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