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Recent Examples of scissor
An entire skit written by Elaine May — ironically, a sendup of overly prudish movie censors — was scissored by the network.
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Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
While one of his younger brothers David (Harris Dickinson) sleeps in, Kevin sprints across the family’s acreage in a cropped tee and shorts, his mammoth, scissoring arms as propulsive as his pumping thighs.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
At the Locanda Ferrari restaurant, where diners slurped up plates of spaghetti alle vongole and compared notes on their favorite places for eel, Paola Ferrari, 61, scissored the crabs and dumped them in a pan of tomatoes, onions and herbs.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
Max Ernst collages are the type of this kind, made from many common sources—cheap advertisements in the back of the newspaper or department-store catalogue—scissored together into a new appearance of meaning.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
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Fred A. Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
While one of his younger brothers David (Harris Dickinson) sleeps in, Kevin sprints across the family’s acreage in a cropped tee and shorts, his mammoth, scissoring arms as propulsive as his pumping thighs.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
At the Locanda Ferrari restaurant, where diners slurped up plates of spaghetti alle vongole and compared notes on their favorite places for eel, Paola Ferrari, 61, scissored the crabs and dumped them in a pan of tomatoes, onions and herbs.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
Max Ernst collages are the type of this kind, made from many common sources—cheap advertisements in the back of the newspaper or department-store catalogue—scissored together into a new appearance of meaning.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scissor
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Sansa works out his true nature by season seven, however, revealing his crimes in a dramatic trial and having sister Ayra slit his throat.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
1 Jan. 2025
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The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life is planning to seek an insanity defense, court records show.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
17 Jan. 2025
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The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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But with Trump returning for a second term, there’s a particular worry among some longtime government staffers about the president-elect’s fixation on loyalty, his desire to push the bounds of presidential authority and how his team might seek to slash the workforce.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2025
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The policymakers slashed rates by 0.5 percentage points in September, followed by a 0.25 percentage point drop in November.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Prune branches selectively rather than shearing indiscriminately.—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Jan. 2025
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Photographs from The Courier Journal's archives show the aftermath of the bridge shearing the tops from large vehicles as early as 1978.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
27 Dec. 2024
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That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.—
Cami Mondeaux,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
16 Jan. 2025
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One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin,
CBS News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Let the bread cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing.—
Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2025
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Dice the potatoes, chop the fresh ginger and slice the sweet onion (finely) and carrot.—
Michiko Tomioka, Contributor,
CNBC,
5 Jan. 2025
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Jarrells was stabbed to death by her sister Brianna Jarrells, prosecutors allege.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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Anna-Lena Svensson, a 56-year-old woman who happened to witness the attack, tried to intervene but was also fatally stabbed.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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After Florida, the crew went to Southern California to rip.—
Brendan I. Koerner,
WIRED,
13 Jan. 2025
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As the Palisades fire ripped through the Los Angeles hillsides above the community at 10.30am, Rabuchin’s boss and the store’s owner, Elyse Walker, evacuated the store, a Towne by Elysewalker shop across the street and a third store in nearby Calabasas.—
Christina Binkley,
Vogue,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Scissor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scissor. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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