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variants or chiselled

chiseled

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verb

variants or chiselled
past tense of chisel

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chiseled
Adjective
With his chiseled jaw, sonorous voice and bodybuilder’s frame, Lagree could be the love child of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Fabio Lanzoni. Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 With his dark eyes and chiseled cheekbones, he was slotted into mostly boring love-interest roles. Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
The torn meniscus — and ensuing rehab — may have chiseled away at some of his size. Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025 America has stronger protections for speech, better safeguards for religious liberty, and more robust shields for conscience than anywhere else — and, better still, those protections are chiseled into our foundational law. The Editors, National Review, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chiseled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chiseled
Verb
  • This chic design feels like something plucked out of a Parisian home tour, giving your chamber a je ne sais quoi moment that won’t go out of style anytime soon.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Its packaging, a jewel-like blue bottle engraved with a golden lotus, looks like it was plucked from a fantasy apothecary in the night sky.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What’s rising in the aftermath is a new breed of giving that is leaner, faster, and built on the principles of decentralization, distribution, and data.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Men with aviator glasses and handlebar moustaches, leather jackets, jeans, or flannel walk down the street, lean against storefronts and lampposts.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • While the Kentucky team hustled into the tunnel off the court, Oklahoma fans booed, with one hurling a can of beer that came close to hitting one team member, as captured in a video from the moment.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Kansas was constantly out of position on rebounds and out-hustled in other instances.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • One major case was probing if Capital One cheated customers out of $2 billion in interest payments.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And a media room cheated as an office, where the family keeps important papers.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In the semis, Parenteau turned back the clock and played a solid game to beat Buckner and return to the final for the first time in nearly a year.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Almost daily, the news has stories and videos of people being robbed or beaten in Baltimore, shot and killed, or simply being harassed.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025

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“Chiseled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseled. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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