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chop

verb as in cut up with tool

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For marketers, one drawback to exploring Minis is the technical chops required to develop the apps, said Garrett Woods, associate director of platforms at Fullscreen, a social content company.

From Digiday

Meanwhile, Microsoft already has a social media business—LinkedIn—and has the technical chops to build a social commerce operation.

From Fortune

Vondracek harnessed his organizational chops to organize a 48-hour session involving 150 volunteers from among the many hundreds who signed up.

From Ozy

From 2005 to 2012, Brazil implemented land-use zoning and paid people not to chop down forests, reducing deforestation by 70 percent.

You don’t want somebody just chopping you up, put you in pain.

He holds up his right hand—“A short chop right above the bridge of the nose”—and gives up a laugh.

On the same block, Northland Chop Suey, a Chinese restaurant, has been looted at least two times.

The nation that once revered him threatened to chop him up and fry him into calamari.

He says he can chop about three an hour, and two face cords translates to 36 barrels.

You see people in war paint or doing the tomahawk chop and saying, “Scalp him.”

They took their chop or steak at their inn or hotel, or visited the tripe houses.

"No sabby lead chop till ploddem withee dipper," explained the Chinaman, imperturbably.

Not far away from the sloop could be seen plainly that tiny chop-sea which is caused by the breaking of a school of mackerel.

One old tree, split by a winter storm, I decided to chop down entirely.

M. Noel, in a dress-coat, very dark skinned and with mutton-chop whiskers, came forward to meet us.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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