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as in squeezing
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
ruthlessly chiseled other students out of their lunch money
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Recent Examples of chiseling
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Sep. 2025
The type of manual mining Ojibwe perform to obtain pipestone, however, involves crawling into small caves and careful chiseling by hand.
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Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
CBS News,
1 May 2026
Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.
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Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
Monroe County High School students are chiseling a marble sculpture for America's 250th birthday, guided by an internationally renowned artist and supported by their community.
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Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Feb. 2026
Then the hard work began, like a sculptor chiseling a block of marble into a work of art.
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Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
For 11 days starting in late January, downtown fills with ice and snow sculptures, lively parades, and some of the region’s most skilled carvers chiseling massive blocks into glistening scenes.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
29 Dec. 2025
The dog dug through the snow, chiseling out her masterpiece as the couple stood back laughing at Nala's determination to keep the snowman out of the yard.
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Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
Jason Dawson of the Children's Cancer Centre chiseling the bricks around the time capsule.
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Patrick Smith,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
There’s an art to the hand-cutting and chiseling of the tiles which has been passed down through generations.
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Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Sep. 2025
The type of manual mining Ojibwe perform to obtain pipestone, however, involves crawling into small caves and careful chiseling by hand.
—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.
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CBS News,
1 May 2026
Moyes knows this squad well, both its strengths and weaknesses, and has become adept at chiselling out points on his travels.
—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
Monroe County High School students are chiseling a marble sculpture for America's 250th birthday, guided by an internationally renowned artist and supported by their community.
—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
11 Feb. 2026
Then the hard work began, like a sculptor chiseling a block of marble into a work of art.
—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
For 11 days starting in late January, downtown fills with ice and snow sculptures, lively parades, and some of the region’s most skilled carvers chiseling massive blocks into glistening scenes.
—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Midwest Living,
29 Dec. 2025
The dog dug through the snow, chiseling out her masterpiece as the couple stood back laughing at Nala's determination to keep the snowman out of the yard.
—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
Jason Dawson of the Children's Cancer Centre chiseling the bricks around the time capsule.
—
Patrick Smith,
NBC news,
27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chiseling
Noun
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Her lawyers, Giuseppe Iannaccone and Marcello Bana, have denied there was a case of grand larceny, which would include fraud and swindling.
Verb
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County officials pointed to state budget cuts and a $276,000 drop in liquor revenue as factors squeezing finances.
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Grip the handles on the sides of the machine, tighten your core, and extend your legs, squeezing your quadriceps (top thigh muscles) at the top.
Noun
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The United States will compete in the relay, which starts with a section of skinning — essentially racing uphill with a free heel and climbing skins glued to the skis.
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Nicknamed skimo, ski mountaineering combines uphill skiing (skinning), technical climbing (bootpacking) and downhill skiing.
Verb
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As with the studio version, the track began with Lifeson plucking out a delicate intro on a nylon-string guitar before blasting into monster electric riffs.
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Vogue’s beauty shopping editor Kiana Murden became a devotee after plucking it from the beauty closet and using it religiously.
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Her defrauding of the Foundation, however, surpassed that figure as FBI agents dug deeper into her theft.
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And what could be more legitimate of a cause for removing a governor of the nation's central bank—which is, among other things, the lender of last resort to the country's financial institutions—than the alleged defrauding of those very financial institutions?
Verb
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Letting go of the idea that success requires hustling at all costs — and replacing it with goals that feel attainable — can help founders shift toward a more sustainable approach, one where progress doesn't come at the cost of their well-being.
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Sweeney’s character, Cassie Howard, ends the final episode still hustling, despite the violent death of her husband Nate (Jacob Elordi), the passing of her high school friend Rue (Zendaya), and the dismantling of her OnlyFans account.
Noun
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Other research on high school cheating found in 2020 that 64% of 70,000 high school students across the country admitted to cheating on a test, and 58% admitted to plagiarism.
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Whatever romance Rodrigo is tracing the history of apparently did not end in cheating or any other horrible behavior that would lead her back toward the kind of recriminatory rockers that were among the previous albums’ highlights.
Verb
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America’s favorite sport is not football, or soccer, but screwing over sports fans, which is why FIFA should hold its World Cup in the United States permanently.
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At least Mercedes is reverting back to screwing things together rather than gluing things in a back-to-basics manufacturing push.
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“Chiseling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseling. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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