chopping block
Example Sentences
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Also on the chopping block is $1.6 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service and other climate and weather agencies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Even recent winners like memory makers were on the chopping block.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Blue Bottle coffee shops may be on the chopping block too, according to analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The California Air Resources Board administers its own state-level greenhouse gas reporting program that in some ways exceeds that of the federal program now on the chopping block.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
