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Recent Examples of dicingShredding the chicken instead of dicing keeps the soup hearty yet spoonable.—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026 This compact food chopper makes quick work of dicing onions, tomatoes, and other veggies.—Lizzy Briskin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Nov. 2025 But in sheer operation — no messy personnel groupings, no Payton timeouts to iron out a call — Nix orchestrated affairs with cold precision, finishing 19 of 29 for 247 yards and four touchdowns in dicing up soft Cowboys coverages.—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025 Flacco, on his 10th day as a Bengal, passed for 342 yards, three touchdowns and led a game-winning field goal drive, dicing up the Steelers defense and outdueling Aaron Rodgers in a shootout, 33-31.—Mike Defabo, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 Rather than efficiently dicing and slicing your produce, a dull knife actually requires more force, which can cause you or someone else in your household to get hurt.—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
The blow further inflamed Webster, who raised his flagpole into the air and swung it down repeatedly in a chopping motion, hitting the barricade with a loud clang.
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Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
Filling dinner soup with little effort except chopping.