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Example Sentences

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“We’ve seen this before in the dot-com bubble when the market would slash the price of a dot-com wonder at the first hint it would not meet the market’s extreme expectations,” said Angel.

From MarketWatch

You can almost hear the blades on the ice, glumly slashing through the final motions of a night expected to end so differently.

From The Wall Street Journal

The government shuttered universities, reduced school hours and the work week, and slashed public transport as it limited fuel sales.

From Barron's

He was put under unprecedented pressure to slash short-term rates prematurely.

From MarketWatch

It was overoptimistic about how many Barbies and other products consumers would want and had to slash prices to move them, even as it grappled with higher costs from tariffs, analysts said.

From Los Angeles Times