hacksaw

Definition of hacksawnext

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Verb
  • No longer was the audience in its familiar seat of omniscient spectator, denying the editor the ability to crosscut and seamlessly switch perspectives across the action.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The story crosscut feverishly between the two, giving rise to a ticklishly clever chicken-or-egg conundrum: Was Riley being manipulated, like a puppet, by her confused and unruly emotions?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
Verb
  • Nicholson repeatedly stabbed her and slit her throat before stuffing her into a large plastic bin with her arms and legs sticking out, Porter said.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • If it’s baked in a loaf pan, go ahead and slit the top of the batter before baking.
    Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The market — deliberately not referred to as a pantry to slash stigmas around emergency food — opened in February through a partnership between City Colleges of Chicago and the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
    Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • On April 29, TSA told USA TODAY that more than 1,100 personnel have left the agency since a partial government shutdown slashed its funding more than two months ago.
    Drew Pittock, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Cut from the trompo, the marinated pork shoulder is sliced onto a corn tortilla, then topped with onions, cilantro and roasted pineapple.
    Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The tomatoes and onions were thinly sliced.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The most dutiful of sons, Father wrote many long letters to his parents, some of which arrived scissored into scraps by military censors.
    Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • While there was a myth that lesbians don’t actually scissor, that has since been debunked.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Don't shear the shrubs, which can cause the center to die out.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The communications pole that was sheared in the April 2025 crash that left 19-year-old Preston Obeidin dead near Temecula.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Downriver from the Shoshone Falls are the Pillar Falls, a low waterfall split by rock pillars.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Wood’s colleague and head winemaker Kurtis Ogasawara tells Robb Report this wine requires a couple of tweaks in the vineyard and winery that begin with walking the block prior to harvest and splitting it up into smaller sections based on flavor development.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • At the same time, Bass has proposed cutting entirely the Animal Services Department’s annual budget for food, which was $200,000 last year, and also slashing the medical supplies budget to $49,000, from $388,000 last year.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • But now that the post-pandemic boom has well and truly gone bust, just showing up with a great looking timepiece isn’t going to cut it.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
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“Hacksaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacksaw. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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