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Noun
The culinary experience features bluefin tuna, nigiri, various speciality sushi and live carving demonstrations of approximately 125 pounds of fish.—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026 Transfer brisket to a carving board and let rest at least 30 minutes.—Paula Disbrowe, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 May 2026
Verb
Grant is a lift-all-boats attraction for a sport that’s been steadily carving out space in the public consciousness.—Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026 Tamayo and Lockwood met when Lockwood was carving a bunny out of a tree at a home near Fairfield for an elderly widower whose wife was nicknamed Bunny.—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for carving
Elder’s sculpture was sitting outside of Bee Hive KC over Memorial Day Weekend when a man who was visibly angry allegedly began vandalizing the honeybee, according to Elder.
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Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
The show felt less like a natural history display than a contemporary art exhibition, complete with careful lighting, minimalist staging, a massive crowd on opening day, and the unmistakable suggestion that a dinosaur skeleton might belong beside blue-chip sculpture.
The summer solstice here comes with ice sculpting workshops, campfires under the midnight sun, and traditional dishes served with an Arctic spin.
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Lea Lane,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Over the course of three weeks and nearly 150 hours, Mike Elder carefully crafted his honeybee sculpture, welding on antennas and legs, sculpting the yellow and black-striped body from foam and precisely designing its intricate wings.