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are slashing

  • present progressive of slash.

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Farmers are slashing expenses wherever possible, with some planting fewer seeds or switching to crops that require less fertilizer.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

As the Eid al-Fitr holiday approaches, hundreds of Dubai's luxury hotels are slashing rates in a bid to attract at least local residents and their families.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Nationwide, tech companies have said they are slashing 153,536 jobs this year through November.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

From fruit blenders to noise-canceling headphones, e-commerce sites are slashing prices on almost everything for Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2024

I know that most of us are slashing down our trees most improvidently, and thus compelling our children to buy timber at thrice the cost at which we might and should have grown it.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace