as in slivers
a small flat piece separated from a whole
found a variety of uses for the spalls left over from their stonecutting operations
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To hunt for these slivers of a second, the United States Olympic speedskating team has put traditional analytics on ice and turned to a new tool powered by artificial intelligence to simulate skaters’ complex aerodynamics.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
4 Feb. 2026 -
So when scientists discovered slivers of much older continental crust surrounded by younger oceanic material, something didn’t add up.—
Evan Howell,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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Experts point to restricted access to advanced chips and limited capital as lingering constraints.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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More recently, OpenAI announced a $10 billion deal with chipmaker Cerebras to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras' AI chips.—
Arjun Kharpal,Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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Jeff Clanagan painted a picture of a landscape in which movie stardom is no longer protected by traditional channels, as attention splinters across platforms and audiences fragment.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Twin Cities,
31 Dec. 2025
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The paper also prevents wear and tear on the wood surface and keeps small splinters from snagging delicate clothing.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
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To make this mulch, crush broken terracotta pieces into smaller chunky shards and scatter them around snail and slug-vulnerable plants, including lettuces, hostas, or strawberries.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
6 Feb. 2026
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Images in the aftermath of the attack showed bodies covered in blood lying on the floor of the mosque surrounded by shards of glass and debris.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Tears and lemonade are spilled; mud and cake get smeared into the rug; confetti balloons are popped one by one, showering elated children in rainbow-paper flakes.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Coarsely chop mushrooms; add to a bowl with pepper flakes and oil.—
Faye Levy,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
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Their ancestors had carved a civilization out of the ice with tools made from whalebone and meteorite fragments.—
Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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Social media platforms amplify fragments of reality in real time, while verification remains necessarily slow.—
Charles Edward Gehrke,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Spalls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spalls. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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