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as in slits
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
incised the tree with a sharp ax to get the sap flowing
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Kirby beautifully etches these notions into Miss Black America.—
Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
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Arrange slices 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets.—
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Place slices 1 inch apart on prepared cookie sheets.—
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Every watch represents almost a full year of work, and the watchmaker engraves his signature on a gold plaque inside the movement after final testing.—
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Nothing engraves glass as uniformly and perfectly as UV lasers.—
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Eleven flies up to be face-to-face with the Mind Flayer, rips out his throat, jumps inside, and in one sleek-as-hell move, rips Vecna down from the Mind Flayer power source he’s been plugged into.—
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In the clip, Oshry, who welcomed her first son Reuben, with her husband, Ben Soffer, in May, reaches into her fridge to grab a head of cabbage, then rips open her animal-print bathrobe to show a compression bra stuffed with cabbage leaves.—
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At some point, Alice slashes the tires on Rachel’s car.—
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There, Constance slashes her face with a knife.—
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Nothing that pierces the skin should ever be used as leverage over a child's opportunity to education and to learn.—
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Nicole Kidman's stare pierces the room.—
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Counterintuitively, some analysts think that the investigation now makes near-term interest rate cuts less likely, because Powell and the other members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) will be determined to show the markets that they are guided by the data and not legal threats.—
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Cutting out any that have negative revenue revisions over the past month cuts that in half again to 100 stocks.—
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“Incises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incises. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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