SKIVING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

skiving

verb

present participle of skive

as in whittling

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Voters set up races for four Orange County commission seats in November by whittling casts of candidates to two in districts 2, 6, 7 and 8.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
This man is whittling a star for the tree and standing up for eldest daughters everywhere?

— Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026

Definition of whittling

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The 23-year-old and his Serbia team-mates won the Davis Cup for the first time in December 2010, and fulfilled a promise by shaving their heads in celebration.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Go bananas with shaving cream Have your kids hop into a dry bathtub with their swimsuit on.

— Michelle Crouch, Parents, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of shaving

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The fledgling storm was affected by shearing winds that forecasters expected to prevent it from building into the kind of hurricane that can sometimes quickly develop in the Gulf just offshore.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 24 July 2026
This easy-care hedge requires shearing only once a year to maintain its shape.

— Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 13 July 2026

Definition of shearing

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Furthermore, Bailey stated that simply not cutting rates already constitutes monetary policy tightening.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Enacting a solution is liable to be a significant political battle, likely involving cutting benefits for some Americans or raising taxes on higher earners, or both.

— Ashley Lopez, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cutting

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There were no major surprises after the team made its final cuts, paring the roster down to 53 players days ahead of the flight to Melbourne, Australia, for Week 1 against the Los Angeles Rams.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
Shares had jumped nearly 630% before paring gains to close at 845 yuan.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of paring

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Last year's addition of telephoto capacity in the baseline Pixel models bodes well for cropping into a shot and turning something relatively far away into a moment.

— Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

Definition of cropping

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