(n.) Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think the president-elect has been clear on this.” Ana Quintana, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who advocates a tougher policy towards the Cuban government, said: “All the indications are that he will roll back many of the executive actions – if we look at the appointments to his transition team, like Claver-Carone, who is a very vocal advocate against the opening, and rightfully so.” “Trump’s business sense and business acumen will overwhelmingly draw him to roll back on the opening,” Quintana added, saying that some other foreign companies who have started doing business in Cuba recently have had their assets confiscated.
(2) However, conservative Cuban Americans – including Mauricio Claver-Carone, a hardline member of Trump’s transition team – have said the regime run by Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, is just as repressive, and argue that some or all of the sanctions should be reinstated.
(3) "Really it is not choosing English for its own sake," said Claver Yisa, the director of policy planning at the education ministry.
Cleaver
Definition:
(n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) We could confirm Cleaver's results in finding dark repair replication very much reduced, not only in cultured fibroblasts, but also in epidermal cells and lymphocytes.
(2) Even then, she did everything well, it seemed; years later, she could still cut meat cleanly with a single cleaver stroke.
(3) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
(4) The ditziness, the choice between the good man and the bad boy (Darcy and Cleaver), the overbearing parents all seemed infantilising.
(5) Cleaver’s pregnancy confined her to a remote guesthouse for most of their stay.
(6) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
(7) Homologous displacement involving topoisomerase II alone provides a mechanism for the strand switching required in the models of Kato (1977) and Cleaver (1981) in which SCE occur between replicated double strands.
(8) I’ve been calling [McCarthy] for about two weeks,” Cleaver said.
(9) Last weekend a 54-year-old Indonesian maid was beheaded by sword for killing her female boss with a cleaver.
(10) The results of 200 chopping experiments with a big axe and a smaller cleaver on two different chopping-block levels were presented.
(11) There were liberation movements in Africa who read our paper and contacted us,” says Kathleen Cleaver.
(12) Carlos Clarke shot him as a wild romantic, a sexy figure with a threatening meat cleaver in his hand and the heat of the kitchen dripping down the walls.
(13) Police said that in each of the attacks, unidentified assailants hacked the victim to death with machetes or cleavers.
(14) These findings, plus earlier ones of Cleaver on the lack of repair replication in XP cells, raise the possibility that unexcised pyrimidine dimers can be implicated in the oncogenicity of ultraviolet radiation.
(15) Gary Younge My favourite moment was the spunky, rousing and quite eccentric contribution by the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver.
(16) Griff also expanded the group's parameters, calling himself Minister of Information, the title Eldridge Cleaver held in the Black Panthers.
(17) (updated below) Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier.
(18) The activist's nephew Chen Kegui faces a sentence ranging from 10 years in prison to the death penalty after he brandished a meat cleaver at intruders who burst into his home in Linyi, Shandong province, during the search for his uncle.
(19) A series of reagents containing 3- or 4-nitrobenzamido ligands tethered to 9-aminoacridine via variable-length linkers have been prepared and their properties as photochemical DNA cleavers (photonucleases) examined.
(20) On Thursday, I wrote about the London killing of a British soldier by two men using a meat cleaver.