Noun
I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger. Verb
carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry
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The $60 billion in foreign aid cuts represent a sliver of the trillions the Trump administration wants to slice from the federal budget.—David Campbell, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2025 Yes, but: One U.S. region has seen some spring cooling, stretching from northern Montana into North and South Dakota and a sliver of Minnesota.—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
That left the fresh, slivered onions as the likely source.—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024 Preliminary data implicates slivered onions used on Quarter Pounders as a possible source, and recent testing rules out beef patties, according to the company.—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sliver
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English slivere, from sliven to slice off, from Old English -slīfan; akin to Old English -slǣfan to cut
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