chop
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Ali wore the red sequin chador in 15 cities, including at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2015, where, during a 12-hour performance, she threatened to chop off 99 baguettes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Put on a podcast or an episode of whatever you’re watching and chop the vegetables.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
That, she says, “bodes well for investors who are able to look beyond any near-term chop caused by seasonality, geopolitics and the midterm elections.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In the Women's Underhand Chop, where competitors stand on a piece of wood and chop between their feet, she cut through 11in of white pine in 21.28 seconds.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Villagers need to chop down trees to build fires to cook with and to heat their homes...for survival.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
Episodes are chopped up into two-minute dopamine hits, with endless cliff-hangers and plot twists to keep viewers tuned in.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
This is his 17th Test and he gave an audible cry of frustration when he chopped on off Mohammad Imran, extending a wait for a maiden hundred.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Roughly chop the onion by hand, or pulse it briefly in a food processor until finely chopped but not puréed.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
But this week, in the region known as America’s Salad Bowl, around 300,000 pounds of his romaine hearts were chopped and plowed back into the soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Nate chopped wood, dug trenches, and hauled water.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
As the Mayo Clinic notes, “processing” can include washing, chopping, drying, packaging and a number of other things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Commercial processing can magnify certain food-safety risks, including chopping and shredding in large facilities where a single contaminated leaf can mix with other produce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Getting them entry into chopping and sawing block events as well took time, LaSalle explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
That was fine with Nathan, because his chopping wasn’t nearly as efficient as Nali’s yet.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
