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Off a Mediterranean beach, countless shoes bobbed in the blue waters, abandoned by migrants who had swum to this slice of Spanish territory along the Strait of Gibraltar, just off the coast of Morocco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The gondola would occupy only a small slice of the 32-acre space, but it would be a visible distraction from every inch of the park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

So, Ceuta is a small slice of Spanish territory that sits on a Mediterranean coastline that is otherwise part of Morocco.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026

But he said if he was handed a slice of local income tax, he would "create a new rebate scheme to put money back into people's pockets".

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

I focus my eyes on a couple of seagulls fighting over a discarded slice of pizza.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Instead of painting a broad picture that included all leading forms of content distribution — movie theaters, broadcast and cable television as well as streaming platforms — the states zeroed in on three distinct slices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Modern MRI reveals the whole brain but lacks cellular detail; microscopes reveal individual cells but only in isolated slices.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

It’s time to put down the orange slices, stop singing “Country Roads” and send in the electric guitars with briefcases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

They skewered hot dogs on green branches, and when they were cooked wrapped them in slices of bread.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Cylinders of polysilicon called ingots are sliced to form wafers, which are combined to create solar cells and then arranged together to form modules that are placed on racks to generate electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

To test this, Chai sliced worms lengthwise and fused each one with part of a different worm.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

When Jamie Overton perfected his wide yorker, Brook simply reached across and audaciously sliced it over deep third for six.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

In a large sauté pan, heat three tablespoons of olive oil and stir in three large garlic cloves, thinly sliced.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The bark of wolves sliced through Gia's shouting.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Poster boy Duncan Scott started the rush, defending his 200m individual medley gold from Birmingham four years ago by slicing a chunk off his own Games record.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

If “Beef” were solely about the corrosiveness of rage, this season’s rivalry wouldn’t be worth slicing into.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

She fell onto the ground, stone slicing into her raw knees.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas