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as in to mow
to bring down by cutting
laboriously hewed trees to build their rude log cabins
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Meanwhile, movie stars have tweaked their faces and bodies into a startling sameness that hews toward the most fascistic markers of beauty (extreme thinness, whiteness, no signs of the passage of time).
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Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
Like many cities in the report, Dallas also actually saw a year-over-year effective salary bump, likely because of slightly lower effective tax rates and living costs that have hewed closer to the national average.
—Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
The Biden administration hewed closely to the same policy.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
The Biden administration hewed closely to the same policy.
—CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
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Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
Like many cities in the report, Dallas also actually saw a year-over-year effective salary bump, likely because of slightly lower effective tax rates and living costs that have hewed closer to the national average.
—Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
The Biden administration hewed closely to the same policy.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
The Biden administration hewed closely to the same policy.
—CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hew
Verb
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Maintain a healthy lawn and mow higher to help shade out crabgrass.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2026
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While not having a lawn to mow sparked the couple’s decision to change things up, what to have in its place took some thought.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Both subsequent series adhered closer to the worldbuilding of the games and featured an entirely different cast.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
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But Paul Anthony Kelly is a less deft actor than Pidgeon, and he is given material that adheres even closer to the surface of the legend.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Jeff Shell, now felled from his presidency of Paramount, is living proof.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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Floorboards were milled from walnut trees felled at a construction site in North Carolina.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The first film came out in spring 2020 when everyone was stuck at home during Covid.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
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But when one song is so dominant that everything else disappears in its shadow, the label tends to stick.—
Ryan Brennan
April 8,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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Purple-pink brittle stars still clung to the corals, their tendril-like arms wrapping around the branches like yarn.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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But the coral rock house and a few residents have continued to cling to the land.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Hew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hew. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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