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How to use the word slash in a Sentence?

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This would be the largest single oil drilling project proposed anywhere in the U.S., and it is drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy.

Jeremy Lieb

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

House Republicans are doubling down on an extreme MAGA agenda: to criminalize women’s health care, to slash seniors’ Medicare (including with the repeal of the lower drug prices for seniors in the Inflation Reduction Act), and to attack our democracy.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In Australia, to do our share, we really need to slash our emissions reductions by 75 % by 2030 and that is to hold global warming to less than 1.5 degrees which is the critical threshold for the survival of coral reef as we know it, we can create jobs, we can protect the reef, if we only embrace clean energy technology and stop all new coal and gas developments.

Campaigner Cherry Muddle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Peloton has spent vast amounts of money on stores, factories, warehouses and other facilities to service demand that is now unlikely to materialize. The first step of the new CEO, Barry McCarthy, should be to slash costs to right-size the business.

Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We very much appreciated the support Leo gave us in campaigning to protect Ebo last year so it seemed fitting to honour him in this way, naming a species unique only to Ebo Forest, after him, had the logging concession gone ahead, we would have likely lost this species to timber extraction and slash and burn agriculture that usually follows logging concessions.

Martin Cheek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If state-run banks slash rates and turn on the consumer-lending spigot ... the additional liras flooding the system will only drive more dollarisation - exacerbating financial and economic pressures.

Emre Peker

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Come midnight on Thursday, slash Friday morning members will be forced into a no-pay status that did not complete the portal information or subject to testing thereafter -- that's their last position.

John Catanzara

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want people to see him as this incredible musician slash athlete slash cat lover slash straight-A student. while my child is trans, and he's put in a box of being a trans person, he's so much more than that label.

Jimmy Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Manufacturers may slash output as the state of emergency will unavoidably hurt the economy, a shortage of chip supply will take time to fix, which will also weigh on Japan’s automobile production.

Takeshi Okuwaki

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Thailand was on track to slash single-use plastics by 30% this year with the bag ban, but with consumer behaviour shifting towards food delivery, we may not be able to get back on that track.

Siwat Luangsomboon

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

These battles slash celebrations, I think, are probably one of the biggest tools ever to reengage different people, the power of [ IG Lives ] has been insane to just celebrate music again that was starting to be overlooked.

Ryan Press

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So what I do, if I say,' The Democratic presidential town hall is tonight on CNN,' I'll say :' The Democratic presidential town hall, slash, is on The Democratic presidential town hall, slash, it's going to have the following people, slash, Anderson Cooper is going to speak, slash.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This was a way into a genre that I thought was a little bit more cerebral than your standard hack and slash movie, this is an in-depth look into one of the worst mass manipulators of the public and mass murderers of young girls and women probably ever and it's a hard story to tell.

Zac Efron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I got five stitches on my leg from a slash, a real bad cut after people grabbed me and jumped over the ones in there.

Leroy Pearson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When economists run various economic models, they get estimates that it will slash U.S. GDP only by 0.1 percentage point, that would be true if this tariffs would be imposed only for a year. But you don't know how long this will continue. Such uncertainties will surely affect companies' spending and hiring plans. Markets are worried the economy may lose momentum earlier than previously thought.

Kozo Koide

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If the drought continues through June 2018, we will be forced to slash this forecast back to 10.5-10.7 million tonnes.

Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

She suffered two serious slash wounds -- one to her neck and one to her wrist.

Chelsea Police

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This has the potential to reach $3,000 to $5,000 a week for us, which could slash my rent by up to 30 percent.

Ravi Patel

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists, no, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.

Daniel Craig

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don't believe in the slash-and-burn approach. You know, as a governor you could never do that. That's not effective, i do think there are times where you can withhold dues. I don't think you should slash and cut across-the-board because I don't think that will accomplish the goal.

Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our slow and burdensome approval process at the Food and Drug Administration keeps too many advances, like the one that saved Megan's life, from reaching those in need, if we slash the restraints, not just at the FDA but across our government, then we will be blessed with far more miracles like Megan.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It is morally reprehensible that Wall Street vulture funds are demanding that Puerto Rico fire even more teachers, close more schools, cut pensions and slash the minimum wage so that they can reap huge profits off the misery of the people of Puerto Rico.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The first option is to slash and burn vital programs that Alberta families count on, and that's the wrong path, instead we will carefully maintain spending, ensuring we are spending every tax dollar wisely while helping Albertans weather this storm.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is our ambition to slash years off the normal timeline required for a vaccine, preclinical animal studies will start imminently and we will go through the various stages of research and development that will allow us to potentially enter the clinic next year.

Nicholas Jackson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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