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Recent Examples of scissor
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.
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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
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
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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
Kneel, sit cross-legged, scissor your legs with one leg at a 90 degree angle in front of you (and one behind), or sit with your legs straight in front of you (or with one bent and your foot on the floor).
—Ben Court, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scissor
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But then her dead grandmother, Dorotea, crashes the supernatural party to exact revenge on Valya, for compelling her via The Voice to slit her throat decades prior.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Nov. 2024
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Early on, it was revealed that Father Charlie Mayhew (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) was in fact, the killer and Lois (Niecy Nash) had slit his throat to save herself.Emily Longeretta, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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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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Clamp these pieces together edge-to-edge, and crosscut them again with the track saw to produce two 8-inch pieces that form the ends of the box and two 24 inch pieces that form the top and the bottom panels.Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
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The takeaway is clear: AI is a powerful productivity tool with the potential to slash workloads in half, but only with a solid game plan.Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy have laid out plans to slash government spending with the new department including mass firings of federal workers.Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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Scientists predict that Triton might one day wander too close and end up becoming gravitationally sheared into fragments.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Just in the last month, Nicola Peltz-Beckham (sporting a chop reminiscent of her mother-in-law's iconic Posh Spice chop), Selena Gomez, and Beyoncé have sheared up and joined the short hair club.Konstanze Popp, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2024
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One open question is whether or not Netflix is going to split season 2 of Wednesday in half the way it’s done with later seasons of so many other popular shows from Stranger Things to Bridgerton to You, as of late.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Upon hearing that the movie was split into two parts, many fans of the original play were confused.Samantha Neely, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024
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The accompanying dispenser easily slices through tape to create clean lines without fuss, and a high volume of positive shopper ratings have earned this tape an impressive 4.3-star rating.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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But once they're sliced, bacteria have a chance to multiply.Allison Aubrey, NPR, 9 Dec. 2024
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The episode was recorded in November at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, where Mangum is serving time after being convicted of second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend in April 2011.Jenna West, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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The crook stabbed 32-year-old Aurelio Mendez in the chest at Fordham Fruit and Vegetables on Creston Ave.Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Tom Bastian, a spokesperson for the ACLU of Missouri, ripped the legislation as unconstitutional in a statement.KACEN BAYLESS THE KANSAS CITY STAR (TNS), arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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The average large studio spends over $100 million annually trying to protect its content, yet for $29 and a 5-minute YouTube video, anyone can rip and pirate virtually any platform.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Scissor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scissor. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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