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shred

noun as in tiny piece

verb as in cut into ribbons

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“I was so paranoid that I would shred the receipts,” she said.

For 381 days, no black person in Montgomery with a shred of self-esteem rode the bus.

But is it really worth eliminating that final shred of danger?

Online diagnoses are delivered hyperbolically and without a shred of bedside manner.

Chris McDaniel is now saying the “election was stolen” without providing a shred of evidence.

When this last shred of hope was gone, the Brigadier reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

She was ill, though, when they telegraphed for me; her life for three days and nights hanging on a shred.

Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.

The moon changed and still the same hot dry sky, with only now and then a shred of cloud floating lazily across the blue.

Every shred of the old pretence of the pertinacities and annoyances of strangers had fallen from her.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shred, such as: fragment, iota, modicum, ounce, sliver, and smidgen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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