slashing
Example Sentences
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First, the pandemic-era safety net: The Biden administration’s emergency funding supercharged Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act exchanges, adding coverage to millions of people and slashing the national uninsured rate.
By May, after months of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slashing spending and firing workers at federal agencies across Washington, the FAA granted SpaceX’s request to exponentially increase the number of Starship launches from Texas.
From Salon
While defending the danger area around his stumps, he timed back-foot punches rather than slashing cuts and clipped from his pads to keep the score moving.
From BBC
“What else could defendants’ decisions to cut funding to specific counterterrorism programming by conspicuous round numbered amounts — including by slashing off the millions-place digits of awarded sums — be if not arbitrary and capricious?”
From Salon
A significant slashing of the federal-funds rate is looking less certain for the new year, but it’s not entirely out of the question.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
