slit
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And singer Rose, a multiple Grammy nominee this year for "APT," her banger collab with Bruno Mars, wore a chic strapless black dress with a high slit and an outsized bird brooch at her waist.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Knowing approximately when to head home for the day could be guessed by examining nature—even by looking at a sheep’s pupils, which go from a rectangular slit to a wide orb as the light fades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Her only contact with other humans is a slit through which she can hear daily mass, save for Marte, the low-ranking Beguine assigned to deliver her meals and empty her slop bucket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
However, when observed, they acted like particles passing through one slit or the other.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
That night, light filters in through a slit in my bedcurtains.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
The two men strolled around the grounds of the castle, taking in the pointless folly of the battlements and arrow slits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Popular styles include corseted bodices, high slits, feathered trains, detachable capes and beaded sleeves.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
It found that these particles, which can either act like a particle or wave, acted as waves passing through both slits in the experiment when they were unobserved.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Seat of the county of Los Angeles since it opened in 1960, it looks like a Lego block with slits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
Everyone wears dashikis, kabas and slits, shirts sewn with kente cloth, and other traditional Ghanaian garb that I’d never be caught in at school.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Pork is not halal, and other animals, such as chicken, beef and lamb, must be slaughtered under certified-halal standards such as the humane slitting of the throat.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
The new facility, built on 12 acres of land, will occupy 75,000 square feet for its composites slitting and winding technology, as well as 9,000 square feet of refrigerated warehousing.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2019
The rough scrape of a spoon scouring the empty cup of a emptied avocado, the stitching of a paring knife slitting a vanilla bean pod.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2018
The Arizona Republican Party, they’re just slitting their own throats,’ said John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, which has a larger population than St. Louis.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018
It is hard not to imagine de Vries, in his study in Amsterdam on a gray March morning, slitting open that reprint and running his eyes through the first paragraph.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
