slit

Each slit functions like an artificial atom, or meta-atom.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

And singer Rose, a multiple Grammy nominee this year for "APT," her banger collab with Bruno Mars, wore a chic strapless black dress with a high slit and an outsized bird brooch at her waist.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

Knowing approximately when to head home for the day could be guessed by examining nature—even by looking at a sheep’s pupils, which go from a rectangular slit to a wide orb as the light fades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

By the time Tom has tracked Robbie to his home, the dreamer’s vast horizon has narrowed to a slit.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025

Taking a sharp stone, she slit the bag and ran behind a tree.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Not one of the galleries has a skylight, although some have one or two slender slits atop the walls that admit weak slivers of borrowed light.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Battling strong currents, Ralph Pace captured this image of a swell shark egg case, revealing a glowing embryo, complete with gill slits and a yolk sac.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

It found that these particles, which can either act like a particle or wave, acted as waves passing through both slits in the experiment when they were unobserved.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

Seat of the county of Los Angeles since it opened in 1960, it looks like a Lego block with slits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

And where there should be windows, tiny slits jut out of the bricks.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Pork is not halal, and other animals, such as chicken, beef and lamb, must be slaughtered under certified-halal standards such as the humane slitting of the throat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022

The rough scrape of a spoon scouring the empty cup of a emptied avocado, the stitching of a paring knife slitting a vanilla bean pod.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2018

The Arizona Republican Party, they’re just slitting their own throats,’ said John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, which has a larger population than St. Louis.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018

But Cline – eager to escape her own poor, working-class origins in Virginia – found it preferable to her previous job slitting chicken throats on an assembly line.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017

We are anchored tonight off the coast of Delaware, where there stands, on the bank, a great ironworks—a bloomery and slitting mill—all cold and neglected.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson