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Example sentences for: slash

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In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.
The City Council's proposal for the 650-lawyer Corporation Counsel's Office would slash its budget by 10 percent - or $10.
Dole's sins: Not only did he want to slash $270 billion from the program--more than needed to protect the Medicare "trust fund"--he wanted to hike premiums, force seniors to pay more out of pocket for care, and push them into managed care.
It is indeed scarcely wider than a sword slash, crossed by a miniature iron suspension bridge brought from Scotland and portered in at the turn of the century.
Now that we have discovered that we can slash the crime rate by simply excising the peck from Pecksniffian , so to speak, we should enter the 21st century with everybody living happily ever after.