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slice

[slahys] / slaɪs /




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"No matter how you slice it, TOI-5882 is so enriched in lithium it shows up as being at least in the 97th percentile."

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

Muchova made two ridiculous volleys - including a diving one - slipped on her first match point, and Gauff missed a match point when she went with the slice forehand at the net.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Uncle Sam will take his required slice of the pie, regardless.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

It remains a small but expanding slice of the business, with three stores in Las Vegas and a fourth that opened in Miami last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

It charged a lot less for insurance on a putatively safe double-A-rated slice of a CDO than it did for insurance on the openly risky triple-B-rated bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Instead of painting a broad picture that included all leading forms of content distribution — movie theaters, broadcast and cable television as well as streaming platforms — the states zeroed in on three distinct slices.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Histological atlases map its architecture at cellular resolution using microscopic images of tissue slices.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

And those matches are so deeply Norwegian that kids might as well swap their orange slices for brown cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Researchers examined thin slices of fossil bone under specialized lighting that can reveal growth rings that are difficult to detect using standard methods.

From Science Daily Jun. 22, 2026

We each bring our slices of cake and scoops of ice cream inside.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

In his second international, the left-hander sliced the second ball he faced, off Archer, for six over third man.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Sure, all things considered, I’d rather have a small bump sliced off my scalp than have my anal glands expressed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Simply fry your sliced bananas in a large pan with a cooked mixture of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

To create the connectome, researchers sliced a single fruit fly into thousands of extremely thin serial sections.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

He spun it in his fingers and with a single sweep sliced the top two inches off his wineglass.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

Asset management flows were healthy, lifting revenues and slicing the cost-income ratio, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

If “Beef” were solely about the corrosiveness of rage, this season’s rivalry wouldn’t be worth slicing into.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2026

This season, he missed five weeks with the Devils after slicing his right thumb open on broken glass at a team dinner.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

“I like it here,” the admiral said, energetically slicing his meat.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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