slash

Example Sentences

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Tuition is free, but it has slashed the accommodation available to students, and trainers expect many to drop out in the face of educational demands and financial pressures on their families.

From Barron's

Here the travelling fans chanted his name as he clipped and slashed England to a rapid start, even scooping Michael Neser over the wicketkeeper for six.

From BBC

Since then, they’ve used the cash to slash debt, buy cars, pay college tuition and fund retirements.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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

All this year he has had the freedom to demand that the Fed slash rates, because he knew it wouldn’t.

From MarketWatch