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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.
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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
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
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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
Its two beams scissor back and forth across the canopy at 400,000 pulses per second, and the echoes reveal the geometry of every tree, branch, and sometimes leaf.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
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Testers appreciated thoughtful features including the wide and stretchy thumb slits on the sleeves, a ponytail hole on the snug hood, and a small zipper pocket on the lower hem for stashing coffee money or a house key.Samantha Berman, Outside Online, 29 Oct. 2024
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The New Arrivals has grown into a red carpet and afterparty fashion brand known for its glamorous gowns and statement slits, two-pieces and a homage to coral pink, which sits at the core of this collection.Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 18 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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But the vice president has slashed this 16-point lead to just four points, 47 percent to Trump's 51 percent, the final iteration of the poll published Monday shows.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The operating profit outlook for the period was slashed from 400 billion yen to 360 billion yen.Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 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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Begay is involved in every step of the process—from raising and shearing sheep to collecting materials to make dyes to dying the wool to weaving the tapestry.Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
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After months spent working on an effort to revitalize Saratoga’s commercial scene, the Saratoga City Council was split in its decision to advance a pilot outdoor dining program for a fine dining restaurant in the city’s downtown.Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The organ is split into six different segments, and sections of thickened tissue are said to correlate to spells of colder weather.Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
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Scallions: thinly sliced, serving with scallions provides a little freshness, bright color, and oniony crunch.Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
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Caveat: Plenty of kids younger than 5 and older than 14 go trick-or-treating, but this is the least imperfect way to slice the census data for our purposes. Check out a map of all of the trick-or-treating hotspots around the U.S.Zachery Eanes, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
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Another execution attempt of Creech, 74, had been scheduled for Nov. 13 — coincidentally, the same date in which the four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in 2022 in an off-campus apartment house.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed repeatedly in 2020 outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris by an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin, then decapitated, days after showing his pupils the caricatures.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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While a players goes in at his own risk, that does not allow a fan to attempt to rip a glove off a hand, or a ball out of a mitt, or an arm off of a body.Dan Freedman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The change, which takes effect at the end of the week, comes as Nvidia continues to rip higher while Intel languishes in the artificial intelligence race.Jesse Pound,Samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Scissor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scissor. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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