Thesaurus results for CHISELING

chiseling 1 of 2

noun

variants or chiselling

as in swindling

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chiseling

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verb

variants or chiselling

present participle of chisel

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

Noun

There’s an art to the hand-cutting and chiseling of the tiles which has been passed down through generations. — 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. — 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

Her lawyers, Giuseppe Iannaccone and Marcello Bana, have denied there was a case of grand larceny, which would include fraud and swindling.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Jan. 2026

Definition of swindling

Verb

The remarks followed the release of strong quarterly results, with revenue and earnings beating analysts’ expectations despite a 6% downturn in revenue due to pressure squeezing all broadband purveyors.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
Fuel expenses are squeezing daily household budgets and tightening cash flow toward the end of the month, with reports indicating a growing number of French employees are requesting payroll advances to manage month end expenses.

— , CNBC, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of squeezing

Noun

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.

— The Sports Desk, NBC news, 18 Feb. 2026
Nicknamed skimo, ski mountaineering combines uphill skiing (skinning), technical climbing (bootpacking) and downhill skiing.

— Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026

Definition of skinning

Verb

Getting up from their seats backstage at Bear Shadow, Pandolfi and Falco head over to meet up with the other three Dusters who are plucking a few notes on their instruments under a large maple tree behind the stage.

— Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2026
Upending global trade, plucking a dictator out of Caracas, escalating to full-on war with Iran, shredding alliances, courting despots — the major twists and turns of this administration never end.

— Kate Andrews, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of plucking

Noun

Her defrauding of the Foundation, however, surpassed that figure as FBI agents dug deeper into her theft.

— Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
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?

— Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

Definition of defrauding

Verb

That urgency has marked Holden’s prolific output—especially the thrilling first installment of his Supreme Magnetic series in 2025 and 2022’s Joe Frog—as the Harlem rapper uses his street-hustling past to paint an autobiographical portrait.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
The 30-second teaser sees Jackson hustling around town, making money and recruiting his team of crooks.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of hustling

Noun

The risks are already visible in models that deploy agents capable of evading their guardrails, escaping their sandboxes, cheating to obtain their goals, and covering their tracks to conceal the cheating.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
For example, if a model figures out a way to cheat to win a game, but the human running the training doesn’t spot the cheating, then the model will learn to cheat.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheating

Verb

Unlike MacKay’s Ferrars, seemingly the more loyal and irreproachable type, both men end up screwing over the Dashwoods in their own ways.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2026
In a video from March 4, 2019, her co-worker David Xu can be seen approaching her desk, pouring a substance into the bottle, screwing the lid back on and quickly walking away.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026