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First, crosscut the 8-ft-long strip into two 32 1/8-inch long pieces.
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Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
The divide between conservatives and progressives is crosscut by those who want the courts to retain their authority over constitutional meaning and those who do not.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
The scene is crosscut with Alicent copulating with the King—disinterestedly and out of duty.
—Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
Rip and crosscut the plywood back to fit the space between the rabbets and match the case length.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2020
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Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
The divide between conservatives and progressives is crosscut by those who want the courts to retain their authority over constitutional meaning and those who do not.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
The scene is crosscut with Alicent copulating with the King—disinterestedly and out of duty.
—Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
Rip and crosscut the plywood back to fit the space between the rabbets and match the case length.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2020
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The couple will split time between Texas and Virginia, undoubtedly looking for one more property to save.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The responses were also split along party lines, with a fair amount of Democrats finding the killing acceptable compared to very few Republicans and independents.Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Dec. 2024
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Charging documents obtained by KIRO, Fox 13 and the Kitsap Sun allege that the 23-year-old suspect called 911 and claimed his brother had slit his own throat.Liam Quinn, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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Tasteful slits on either side of this sweater allow for the piece to have natural movement, while loose sleeves provide an effortlessly cool finish to the neutral staple.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2024
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But the laws of football physics tell us A&M’s resurgence will be felt long after the last piece of Vandy’s goalposts are recovered, sliced up and sold for $40.35 on eBay.David Whitley, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Others have one cooking scene so memorable that the film simply had to make the list: Annie baking a single cupcake in Bridesmaids, Paulie slicing garlic with a razor blade in Goodfellas, that final sequence in Phantom Thread.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Zibanejad saw his ice time slashed against St. Louis, and Kakko watched from the press box.Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Indeed, the newsroom staff was slashed in half within just a few years.Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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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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Like that one that underestimated a low Bronx highway overpass at full speed, shearing its top off, killing 15 passengers, decapitating at least one.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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There was Novak Djokovic coming clean about his true identity as the actor Bert Critchley, practising ripping his shirt in front of a bathroom mirror and discussing his process of getting into character.Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Andy Roddick, the last American man to win a Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open in 2003, ripped the NCAA rule on social media.Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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Nordstrom announced plans last year to shutter its Canadian operations, closing all stores in the country and cutting 2,500 jobs.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Then it’s rinsed, milled, aerated, and finally passed through a machine that cuts the resulting masa dough into perfect tortillas and griddles them.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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At its base definition, scissoring is just about genital-to-genital stimulation, so anyone interested in doing so can scissor.Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
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Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Crosscut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crosscut. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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