as in to develop
to produce or bring about especially by long or repeated effort
finally carved out a niche for the sport in the school's athletic program
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The village developed a solution, which is under construction and anticipated to be completed in November.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025 -
The Biodiversity Advantage In Cognitive Systems Malaysia's status as one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries creates unique opportunities for developing regenerative AI systems.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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And the Assembly class of 1990 forged close friendships across party lines that endure 35 years later.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Ben Hania counters that silence, not with an explicit argument but with an experience, a movie forged in the universal and very specific language of the single-location thriller.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
1 Sep. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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And then in mid-October, Johnson is slated to propose his own budget, which will kick off a series of City Council hearings and likely weeks of negotiations between various factions on the council and the mayor’s office to hammer out a spending plan by the end of this calendar year.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 2025
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For a moment, there was optimism that a security guarantee could be hammered out.—
Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Carve (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carve%20%28out%29. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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