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“All you want is a slice of the American dream,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Foreign oil companies scrambled for a slice of Venezuela's crude at an oil summit in Caracas this week despite years of sanctions, underinvestment and mismanagement that have crippled the once booming industry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

An outrageous score, with an outrageous slice of luck presuming Carreras was gambling to get anything on the ball, rather than plotting that particular flightpath.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Taste it,” he says, handing over a slice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

I peel them, slice them, put them in the soup pot, and Ilse starts to sniff the air, polishing her nails on my sofa.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The researchers combined electrical stimulation with rapid freezing to capture tiny membrane changes in mouse and human brain slices.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

I spoke to one of the boat staff, Alessio, after he had finished handing round slices of watermelon to the clientele.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

From Leonardo DiCaprio’s 104-acre escape off the coast of Belize to Johnny Depp’s idyllic Bahamian getaway, these stars have spent millions securing their own slices of paradise.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

The white lunch lady with her hair in a net has a huge gap-toothed smile as she piles sloppy joes and too-cheesy slices of pizza onto plates, along with cartons of milk and browning bananas.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

So does the jamón ibérico, which is sliced tableside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Kurt-Lee Arendse sliced through open field after Damian McKenzie had broken through in the opposite direction, but Josh Moorby failed to gather his pass.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Then, one by one, the bags were sliced open, and the sand spilled back onto the beach where it had come from.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The number of people missing in the catastrophic flood that sliced through the border area between Nepal and Tibet exceeded 3,000 on Sunday, as rescuers searched for survivors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

The others liked croquet, but Bunny and I didn’t; neither of us ever quite got the hang of it, and we always hacked and sliced at the ball as if we were playing golf.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

In surveillance video, the men are seen slicing the depiction of Jesus at the ankles and carting it away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The company is even investigating lasers and ultrasound as potentially speedier methods of slicing pizzas than a traditional knife blade.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In the classroom, trainees crowded around instructor Luo Duocheng as he demonstrated slicing a slab of beef, marinating it, and skewering the meat to form identical kebabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

It was only the glint of the sun and the sight of the grass slicing itself in half that revealed the horrible truth.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz