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as in ripped
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
the shard of glass sliced my hand, and I started bleeding profusely
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sliced
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After all, a double-digit yield isn’t much good if it is soon chopped to single digits.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024 -
In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.—
Jazmine Hughes,
Them,
20 Dec. 2024
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But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan. 2025
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Milton’s hurricane-force winds ripped trees from already soggy soils, but its historic rain also flooded neighborhoods that had never experienced waters so high.—
Jack Prator,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Dec. 2024
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Romero split her childhood between the sprawling metropolis of Houston and the remote Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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This $21-billion fund is split equally between shareholders and utility customers.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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So much so that movement speeds of loads (up or down) were slashed by 85% compared to common-or-garden backpacks.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2024
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Averaging 20 points per game in December was not cutting it.—
Jon Krawczynski,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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Likewise, a surprise 25 basis point rate cut by the BOK at its November meeting, enacted before Yoon declared martial law in December, could have cushioned the blow.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2025
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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
Verb
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On May 5, 1962, sea ice pierced the Quest’s hull, consigning it to a watery grave off the northeast coast of Canada.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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Bake in preheated oven until squash is tender when pierced with a fork, 20 to 25 minutes.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
26 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Both women appeared to have been stabbed multiple times, authorities said and the local medical examiner’s office confirmed, per FOX 11, WSAZ and MetroNews.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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Hernandez-Velasco, 32, was rushed to Stamford Hospital after he was stabbed at a party, cops said.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Sliced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sliced. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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