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[shred] / ʃrɛd /




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But the best financial journalists in the game can’t always get every single shred of detail “in the room.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

"If they have even a shred of honour, the first thing they should do would be to stop the negotiations," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

But Anthony Sanft, Davis’ defense lawyer, argued that the prosecution had no forensics, no eyewitness, and not a single shred of physical evidence placing Davis in the Cadillac with the shooter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

None of this was accompanied by a shred of evidence, and the actual charges filed against those arrested told a very different story.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

“But for all that, we still see that even the most fanciful of stories hold a shred of truth, because I did find something very near to the mad hermit in the woods.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Its final shreds of linen are the blank page between the old nation and the new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

For the rest of us, it functions to preserve our last shreds of shared reality at a time of rapidly developing make-stuff-up machines.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

“I was always amazed at how she tore delicate shreds of meat from her catch and then so tenderly fed her chicks,” said Long Beach resident Erica Motamed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Apparently, when it comes to shreds and zest, I possess the object permanence of a baby.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Everything fades and shreds and crinkles away to nothing.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

On Sphere’s escalators, grey-bearded lifers hugged in shredded battle jackets; tween girls in “Master of Puppets” hoodies drummed along to every fill; accents came from eastern Europe, Latin America and all the world over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

On July 16, the FDA and CDC linked the outbreak to shredded iceberg served at Taco Bell restaurants.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Two months ago, epidemiological information collected by the CDC found that thousands of people had become ill after eating Taco Bell meals containing shredded iceberg lettuce between June 22 and July 20.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

I wanted it dark, fudgy and almost absurdly moist, with shredded zucchini and big pockets of bittersweet chocolate — but not so moist that the whole enterprise tipped into gummy.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

I take a closer look at the clump of shredded paper that used to be inside the cardboard box.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Even Rodrigo’s backing band, full of absolutely shredding women instrumentalists, played beside her on equal footing for exquisitely tasteful, post-punky revisions of songs across her three albums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

His shredding effect on electric guitar and multi-tracking to thicken his instrument’s sound dominate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Mama rushes over from the kitchen, still holding the head of lettuce she was shredding.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan




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