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Recent Examples of carving
Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
The Rim in the Waterside shops will offer its holiday buffet featuring a ham and tri-tip beef carving station.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
Along its spiral arms, bright orange pockets mark areas where new star clusters are forming, carving out glowing bubbles in the surrounding material.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
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Noun
The fur trade brought smallpox to the Pacific Northwest—including a particularly devastating outbreak in 1862—but also metal axes, chisels, and adzes, which displaced carving tools made of stone.
—Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
The Rim in the Waterside shops will offer its holiday buffet featuring a ham and tri-tip beef carving station.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
Last spring, a strong tornado raged through Forest Park, carving out a massive path of destruction and uprooting or damaging thousands of trees.
—Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
Along its spiral arms, bright orange pockets mark areas where new star clusters are forming, carving out glowing bubbles in the surrounding material.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carving
Noun
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Last month, Drake revealed the album’s release date by installing it inside a giant ice sculpture in downtown Toronto, which was retrieved and revealed by Twitch streamer Kishka.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2026
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Down on 24th, the gigantic Giuseppe Penone at Gagosian was blissfully empty, the big Prousted room with the sculpture pegged on top of the cork.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
Verb
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That said, Evermore's summer programming—beach DJs, movie nights on the sand, a resident sand sculpting artist, and holiday weekend events like a July 4th carnival and Labor Day Bay Games—makes staying put genuinely tempting.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2026
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For the single take prologue, Pawlikowski kept sculpting it with Diehl, taking things out, putting them back in, to reach the right length and cadence.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Anthropic was granted a preliminary injunction in its San Francisco case, allowing government agencies other than the DOD to use Anthropic’s models while the litigation unfolds.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Climate change is producing weather no model has trained on (including changing the behavior of hurricanes).—
Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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“Carving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carving. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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