chiseling 1 of 2

variants or chiselling
present participle of chisel

chiseling

2 of 2

noun

variants or chiselling

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chiseling
Verb
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
Noun
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
Verb
  • When not plucking away at a keyboard, Madison teaches yoga and mountain bikes with her two Australian shepherds, Cholla and Poppy, through Missoula's Rattlesnake Wilderness.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • It’s haltingly played, like a child plucking out the notes, to emphasize John’s deep connection to his daughter.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of hustling for one-day bookings, Patel engineered a system where one client often meant three to five events—maximizing return and loyalty.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Four astronauts returned to Earth after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.
    Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That assumes your startup is developing artificial intelligence tools for cat-skinning.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That could be due to tariffs squeezing automakers, disincentivizing them from giving discounts.
    Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This could be done by either squeezing the regular season even tighter with more midweek fixtures or putting the Wembley final back a week.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Her alleged defrauding of the Jackson Health Foundation, however, extended well beyond Miami, according to an indictment and other court records.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • There are things worse than cheating.
    Essence, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported an uptick in the sale of blue books as a safeguard in testing to avoid students using AI for cheating.
    Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Even if what Weyland-Yutani has is blood-sucking, eye-gouging, and chest-bursting alien monsters.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Yes, that’s Lane Kiffin adapting by becoming a basketball goal (while also adapting by beating Arkansas 41-35 with Division II Ferris State transfer Trinidad Chambliss stepping in for Austin Simmons at QB).
    Jason Kirk, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Both sides have also carried out arbitrary detentions, with SAF interrogating and beating dozens of Christians in 2024 and 2025.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Chiseling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiseling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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