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noun

ˈsplin-tər

Definition of splinter

as in chip

a small flat piece separated from a whole she got a splinter from the unfinished wall

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splinter

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verb

as in to slice

to cut into long slender pieces He splintered the carrots into little sticks.

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as in to split

to cause (people) to break up into opposing groups The board splintered as soon as the most contentious issues came up for discussion.

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Recent Examples of splinter

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

Verb

These days, everyone’s splintered into parts and performance. — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026 Here’s a fun wrinkle that says a lot about how this industry has splintered. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for splinter

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Noun

Rare earth metals come to mind, magnets come to mind, and all the gears and actuators and chips and so forth.

— John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Nvidia has been facing the soaring costs of memory chips, which are essential for its GPUs and systems.

— Michelle Fox, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of chip

Verb

From there, the software can automatically repair models, orient them for printing, generate supports, arrange parts on the build plate, slice the file, and send it directly to the printer.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
The blade can make light work of opening packages, cutting cord, slicing through leather, and more.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of slice

Noun

Most of the moon will be obscured, with only a thin sliver remaining outside the shadow, giving the lunar surface an eerie red glow.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2026
The portion of the First Miami Presbyterian Church site slated for redevelopment faces a sliver of Biscayne Bay that separates Brickell from Brickell Key.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of sliver

Verb

His first came after he was released down the flank by Semenyo, carrying the ball forward before chopping inside and hammering a shot straight at Nick Pope.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Florida chef Elijah Button was chopping onions in June when his knife slipped and sliced his middle finger to the bone.

— Ali Swenson, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of chop

Noun

In a sequencer that resembled a large fridge, millions of short nucleic-acid fragments would be identified in the span of ten hours.

— Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
The artifacts included eight deformed sickles, one intact sickle, part of a sword blade, ornament fragments, three ingots and two unfinished objects.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of fragment

Noun

These kinds of seemingly effortless lines, lines that take a small shard of experience and hold it up to the light, offer some clues as to how the thirty-one-year-old Bridgers earned her reputation as one of her generation’s standout songwriters.

— Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
Each year, countless shards of this ancient comet collide with our wandering planet.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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