scissored; scissoring
ˈsi-zə-riŋ 
ˈsiz-riŋ
: to cut, cut up, or cut off with scissors or shears
scissored the paper into strips
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Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Security screeners have found everything on the conveyor belt from ceremonial scissors to antique cannonballs to live eels.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
—Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Then Crispr came along—the elegant enzymatic apparatus that allows delivery of DNA scissors to a specific target in the genome.
—Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Security screeners have found everything on the conveyor belt from ceremonial scissors to antique cannonballs to live eels.
—Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
At its base definition, scissoring is just about genital-to-genital stimulation, so anyone interested in doing so can scissor.
—Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
Sizzle highlighted above, there are a lot of assumptions around who can scissor.
—Adejoke Mason, Them, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Scissor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scissor. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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