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The combination of steep competition and pressure on profit margins has forced many studios to slash costs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

About 50,000 job cuts have already been agreed across the 10-brand Volkswagen Group -- mostly at VW, Audi and Porsche -- but the firm has said another 50,000 could be required worldwide to slash costs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Still, the home failed to sell, prompting the musician—who is married to fashion designer Melody Ehsani—to slash his ask once more in March 2024, this time to $6.8 million.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

"Infantino threatened to slash members' earnings if they did not back him," the paper reports, "but federations in Asia and Americas are also opposed to sell-off".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

I was about use Riptide to slash at the driver when Annabeth yelled, “Percy!”

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

As Germany's Opel slashes its engineering ranks and partners with China's Leapmotor, anxiety is running high in Ruesselsheim, the city it has long dominated.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Nomura slashes its 2026 net-profit estimate for the company by 48% to 4.871 trillion won.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

That segment of the show largely stripped out the guitars to focus on clubby techno and nasty slashes of synth noise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

DBS cuts its rating on the stock to hold from buy and slashes its target price to HK$19.50 from HK$27.00.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Avoiding the stabs of the banner pole and the swift whiplike slashes of the tail, Basil realized that this was no clumsy rat he faced.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Shares of the sporting-goods retailer suffering a record selloff as profit and sales missed expectations and the full-year outlook was slashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Just to quietly do what he did the previous season as a Chicago Cub, when he slashed .266/.377/.464 with 22 home runs, 73 RBIs and 25 stolen bases in 136 games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Last year the company slashed its expectations, which it blamed on a "high challenging environment" amid the introduction of tariffs at the time.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Wright said he was conducting a top-to-bottom review of Wendy’s, and he slashed the company’s dividend to invest in the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Then, slips and newspaper went to the cutter who stood before a large slanting desk and slashed out the marked items with a sharp curved knife.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The plan envisages slashing the three states' collective water consumption by up to 3.7 billion cubic meters per year until 2036 -- the equivalent of 1.5 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

In July last year a BBC team witnessed the police slashing an inflatable boat with a knife to prevent it being used.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

A new federal housing law is aimed at slashing red tape associated with producing modular and manufactured homes, the Journal’s Lily Belle Poling writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cook’s first big move when he joined the company in 1998 was to implement a “just-in-time” inventory system by slashing unsold product storage times, consolidating suppliers and outsourcing manufacturing.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

I windmilled my arm like I was Pete Townshend slashing a guitar.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith