splinters 1 of 2

noun

plural of splinter
as in slivers
a small flat piece separated from a whole she got a splinter from the unfinished wall

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splinters

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verb

present tense third-person singular of splinter
as in slices
to cut into long slender pieces splintered the carrots into little sticks

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Recent Examples of splinters
Noun
Legend has it this imperative caused the park’s architect, William Russell Everitt, to smash the original model to splinters with a baseball bat. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026 Congress can swing the axe but taxpayers pick up the splinters. — Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 But as the season neared the winter transfer window, the expectation was for Mainoo to leave on loan rather than continue to pick up splinters on the bench. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 26 May 2026 While Johnny Carson was a monolith, shaped by a dominant TV media structure to be all things to all people, the current crop of late-night hosts are merely splinters. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026 Bricks, scorched wood frame splinters and other debris are scattered there. — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 23 Apr. 2026 In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased. — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 Upon impact, cannonballs would have sent wooden splinters flying like debris from grenades. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026 Weeks before King Charles' coronation, The Times reported that Pope Francis, then the leader of the Catholic Church, gave King Charles two splinters of wood believed to be from the True Cross as a personal gift in honor of the coronation. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
Endlessly switching between apps and online platforms splinters our attention and can lead to digital exhaustion, leaving us anxious, apathetic and unfocused. — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026 Megyn Kelly is continuing her hard-right tack, lashing back at Ben Shapiro and aligning herself with Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon as the MAGA movement dramatically splinters. — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025 Rumors are swirling in Kansas political circles that Republican leaders are considering initiating a special session like the one that just concluded in Missouri and produced a new map that splinters Kansas City into three congressional districts. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025 Instead of picking a single character to follow for the duration of the film, Cregger splinters the mystery among six people, separated into distinct chapters, beginning with Justine. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splinters
  1. slivers
  2. slices
  3. shards
  4. chops
  5. chips
  6. splits
  7. fragments
Noun
  • This flaky white fish looks like a gourmet dish when served over a bed of couscous and dressed with mixed greens and colorful radish slivers.
    — Jasmine Thompson, Midwest Living, 25 July 2026
  • This white and pink ombré set is elevated with gold slivers to outline each nail.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 June 2026
Definition of slivers
Verb
  • Driven by revenge and madness, Sweeney Todd slices necks he is meant to just shave.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Her foot slices down the side of the ball.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of slices
Noun
  • To keep her shards together, Lyman had imposed a new organizing principle on her life.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • As he was pulled back up, shop owner and witness Anna Medina said, his right leg was cut by the shards of glass.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
Definition of shards
Verb
  • Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.
    — JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of chops
Noun
  • Amazon’s growth can be directly linked to its data center chips, with the company disclosing revenue for this part of the business for the first time this year.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Variety snack packs refer to packs of snacks with multiple flavors of chips or cookies.
    — Parents, Parents, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of chips
Verb
  • There is one period in the middle of that when the team splits up to do 1-on-1 blocking and pass rushing with the linemen while the quarterbacks throw 7-on-7 passes to wide receivers defended by defensive backs and linebackers.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But while rumors of separations and splits circulate the Bravosphere, Barlow, who has been married to her husband, John, for 22 years, is focused on her own relationship.
    — Morgan Evans, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of splits
Noun
  • Bortigali, the town where the archaeological site is located, is about 40 miles north and inland of Mont’e Prama, where ancient sculptural fragments and a monumental necropolis were first discovered in the 1970s.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The larger openings in the mesh can physically capture bigger plastic fragments.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of fragments

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