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
Doctors did not expect Roy Daines to live past childhood after being born with a heart problem and a slit in his left lung.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
However, when observed, they acted like particles passing through one slit or the other.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
I pulled on my two sets of gloves and high-tech winter coat and the thermal hat that covered my face except for the eyeholes and a little mouth slit.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
This pattern revealed that each electron behaved like a wave, with its quantum wave-function passing through both slits at once and interfering with itself.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
She’s wearing a long, drapey skirt with high slits that reveal her tattooed legs, and her signature nails click against one another as she gestures with her hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
If light shines through two small slits, there are areas that are dark—wave-free.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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 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
But Cline – eager to escape her own poor, working-class origins in Virginia – found it preferable to her previous job slitting chicken throats on an assembly line.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017
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
