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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

“It wouldn’t surprise me if we chop around here for another few weeks,” Nelson said in a phone interview.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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

I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Go chop wood, then you can play it,” Andrea’s mom said.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The 26-year-old, who took a career-best 6-55 in the first innings, bowled Jake Weatherald for 0 and Travis Head for 17 as both players chopped on to their stumps.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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

Mike was sitting at a table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

I had asked Roden-Reynolds, a public health biologist, to inspect my yard because a lone star tick bit me as I was chopping wood last fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

They also do farmwork, like harvesting corn, herding sheep, caring for cows and chopping wood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

At one of Snabbit's training hubs in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, workers rehearse tasks such as chopping vegetables against the clock.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Loomis worked for us off and on all my life—milking till I got big enough, plowing the garden till I got big enough, fixing fences and chopping wood till I got big enough.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns