How to Use slash-and-burn in a Sentence
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Even after a year of slash-and-burn, Trump is not done.
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Lara Williams,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
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Here and there, a plume of smoke rose up from a field; slash-and-burn farming, locally known as tavy, is still practiced here.
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Chris Schalkx,
Vogue,
30 Sep. 2025
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The slash-and-burn approach to funding academic research counters that goal.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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That stark reality forced both sides to wage slash-and-burn propaganda campaigns designed to sow doubt and disinformation among their enemies.
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Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Mar. 2026
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Last spring, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency employed slash-and-burn tactics to bring federal agencies to heel, local farm service centers in Kansas were hit especially hard.
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Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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