chisel

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Recent Examples of chisel If Vaughn sees in-season snaps at receiver and can chisel out even a tiny backfield role, the combination could provide an opportunity for point-per-reception production. Jay Felicio, The Athletic, 30 July 2024 Extracting a clump using a pick or shovel goes about as fast as chiseling your way out of Alcatraz. Steve Bender, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024 Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth. Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024 If more depth and detail were chiseled into each man’s story, the history would hit as hard as the music. Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chisel 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chisel
Verb
  • For Hodge, having to squat naked and pluck out her eye was nothing compared with what would follow.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • More than 750 northern tidewater gobies were plucked from a lagoon ravaged by the Palisades fire and transferred to aquariums.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Why Juicing Might Not Benefit the Microbiome The process of squeezing liquid from fruits and veggies, casting off its pulp, leaves one critical nutrient on the table (or, rather, in the blender): fiber.
    Sarah Garone, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The guidance drops have stirred concerns among investors that EA can continue to squeeze growth from its tentpole FC soccer franchise in particular, which accounts for a big slice of its operating revenues.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • In February 1925, Ford cheated the electric chair by twisting up a bed sheet, suspending it from a bar over the door in the cell, and hanging himself.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • In a pair of posts on X Saturday (Jan. 18), Wayne accused the reigning Super Bowl champions — who that day bested the Houston Texans 23-14 — of cheating during games.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Many of these actions won’t stick legally or prove popular with voters.
    Nick Gillespie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The tracking the hip part is really important, because Saquon can stick his foot in the ground and cut back.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That doesn’t mean the absences to Golden State’s second and third most valuable players haven’t stung.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Misdiagnosed by Dennis as a blithering NPC, Marcie turns out to be the emotional turnkey for the entire movie — even more so than Roman and Rocky’s mom (Lauren Graham), who pops in just long enough to suggest that losing a twin might sting with the same intensity as losing a child.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • With a zero-to-60 time below 4 seconds, a quarter-mile time around 12 seconds, and a 155 mph top speed, the coupe clearly hustles.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The company beat analysts’ estimates on several line items and posted better-than-expected operating margins.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Dallas beat the Eagles by 20 points the next week and the losses — and finger pointing — snowballed from there.
    Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Chisel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chisel. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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