slice
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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
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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
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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
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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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