hacksaw

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Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Rolling the pastry around the carrots and sealing the ends creates the traditional Wellington shape; decorative slits in the dough add visual interest and allow steam to escape while the log cooks.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Then, fearing he'd be blamed, Tripp stole a knife from the office of pastry chef Didier Gotthard (Bronson Pinchot) and used it to slit A.B.'s wrists in order to make his death look more like a suicide.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a reduction that would halt the launch of a high-tech space telescope and curtail other planetary exploration missions.
    George Petras, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Nimmo is slashing mere .202/.253/.381 this season, but Sunday’s heroics could be a sign of changing fortune.
    James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Three men wearing ski masks, dark clothing and gloves had used power tools to slice open a hole in the museum’s door, crawl in and smash glass cabinets to steal the white pomegranate vase, as well as a porcelain bowl and doucai-style wine cup, also from the imperial Ming dynasty.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Expect classic Swiss mountain fare, including an array of sausages, sliced veal Zurich-style in a cream sauce with mushrooms, homemade pâtés, terrines pates, and beef tartare.
    Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But Francis also contradicted himself and split some very specific hairs regarding LGBTQ+ rights.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 21 Apr. 2025
  • Shortly after their divorce, Hurley announced her engagement to the Australian cricketer Shane Warne, and the couple split in 2013.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
    Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Nearly all the materials used to build the lodge were sourced locally: pine harvested sustainably from the surrounding forests, wool sheared from the sheep that graze in the pastures outside, stone from nearby quarries.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In Lincoln’s time, people in the town would shear their sheep, wash the fleece and card the wool using the mill.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The House voted to scale back the city’s spending to 2024 levels in March, sparking a crisis as Bowser scrambled to find how to cut $1.1 billion.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Now cuts to federal funding threaten efforts to prevent more cases and outbreaks.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Hacksaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacksaw. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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