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To them, it feels like yes-men have been replaced by skeptical employees who are more likely to shred them on Reddit or Glassdoor than to brown-nose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"If they have even a shred of honour, the first thing they should do would be to stop the negotiations," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

But Anthony Sanft, Davis’ defense lawyer, argued that the prosecution had no forensics, no eyewitness, and not a single shred of physical evidence placing Davis in the Cadillac with the shooter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

"There was not one shred of evidence that could be taken to court and get a conviction," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

The kind I want to shred with my teeth.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Its final shreds of linen are the blank page between the old nation and the new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

For the rest of us, it functions to preserve our last shreds of shared reality at a time of rapidly developing make-stuff-up machines.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The departure of Ohtani for zero prospects, zero young stars, nobody … seriously damaged the remaining shreds of trust between their many loyal fans and the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

But start folding in coconut shreds, caramel swirls, candy pieces, cookie dough, marshmallows?

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

The horse nearest Jake had a splintery wooden crack in its dingy rump and the eyes walled blind and frantic, shreds of paint peeled from the sockets.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

His father was a former Sergeant Major in the Parachute Regiment whose experience during the wartime evacuation of Dunkirk had shredded his mental health.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The typical ingredients: peanut butter or almond butter, chia seeds, flax seeds, oatmeal and shredded coconut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

When consecutive contamination scares hit shredded iceberg lettuce and jalapeños, Sweetgreen rushed to reassure diners that it doesn’t use iceberg lettuce and its suppliers weren’t affected, and it tightened safety protocols.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

I tossed it with store-bought ravioli and shredded rotisserie chicken warmed in olive oil, put peas on the side, and waited for the part where I needed to fix something.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

I walked home under gray clouds whose undersides had been shredded.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Even Rodrigo’s backing band, full of absolutely shredding women instrumentalists, played beside her on equal footing for exquisitely tasteful, post-punky revisions of songs across her three albums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Getting rid of stuff is something we do nearly every week, through donating, trashing and shredding.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Others suggest shredding and freezing parts of the chicken for stretch meals.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Bailey and I received one slice each, and I carried mine around for hours, shredding off the fruit until nothing was left except the perfume on my fingers.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou