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Let the beef and pork render out until they shrink into these tender morsels encrusted with char, ready perhaps to be scissored right on the grill and dunked in sauce.

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2023

That same year, she was cast as Meryl Streep’s daft mother in the film “Heartburn,” also directed by Nichols, but her part — poised to mark her breakout — was scissored from the final version.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2021

“There was no water protection at all. At the end of six months, it was scissored and trashed.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2016

The crowd that comes in here, they want to have fun,” she laughs, platinum blonde hair shimmying over a Clueless T-shirt that’s been shredded and scissored to look more punk.

From The Guardian Jan. 19, 2016

But there was only the swish of my jeans as my legs scissored past each other until I got to the main road.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez




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