slash

Example Sentences

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Regardless of the why, executives say, companies are finding a way to slash jobs and are being rewarded by investors for it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Paul slash Harrison is always just a little smarter than you.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Amazon — which is the USPS’s biggest customer, accounting for 1 billion packages shipped annually — had threatened to slash its deliveries through the Postal Service by two-thirds or more, Reuters reported.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Canada recently agreed to slash its tariffs on thousands of Chinese-made electric vehicles from 100% to roughly 6.1%.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Carl had cleared the land himself with a characteristic rapidity and thoroughness—he’d sold the timber to the Thorsen brothers, burned his slash piles, and poured his footing all in the space of a single winter.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson