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shred

verb as in cut into ribbons

Strongest matches

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Nothing exposes Johnson’s rank hypocrisy more than this one issue, and it’s destroying any shred of credibility he had left.

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Opponents argue repeated domestic deployments shred America’s social fabric and trample protest rights protected by the 1st Amendment.

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As the shredding of civil society accelerates, Ken Gonzales-Day’s art flips our common understanding of identity.

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Not as someone with a shred of sympathy, or as a dogged and scrupulous seeker of truth and justice.

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Hegseth said the military must be a place where there are “no fug-ups, no fatties, no facial hair, no body hair. Just hot shredded hairless men who are definitely not gay!”

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