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as in mowing
to bring down by cutting
laboriously hewed trees to build their rude log cabins
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Recent Examples of hewing
The downside is that managers can end up hewing too closely to their indexes and miss the forest for the trees.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
The downside is that managers can end up hewing too closely to their indexes and miss the forest for the trees.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Avoiding sensationalism and hewing closely to the historical record, Kline subtly and often poetically documents the small, daily choices that shape these lives.
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Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
After the fall 2026 menswear shows came to a close back in January, Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson reported that men’s clothes were hewing closer and closer to womenswear.
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Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2026
Season 1 includes 10 episodes, each hewing close to 30 minutes.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
This year, with supply hewing closely to typical seasonal patterns, expect the usual post-summer wave of new inventory to arrive.
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John Walkup,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
The downside is that managers can end up hewing too closely to their indexes and miss the forest for the trees.
—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Avoiding sensationalism and hewing closely to the historical record, Kline subtly and often poetically documents the small, daily choices that shape these lives.
—
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
After the fall 2026 menswear shows came to a close back in January, Vogue’s Laird Borrelli-Persson reported that men’s clothes were hewing closer and closer to womenswear.
—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2026
Season 1 includes 10 episodes, each hewing close to 30 minutes.
—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
This year, with supply hewing closely to typical seasonal patterns, expect the usual post-summer wave of new inventory to arrive.
—
John Walkup,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hewing
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Grass blades with frost on them are brittle and can be damaged by mowing.
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Maintain your yard by regularly mowing the lawn, trimming shrubs, and reducing moisture to deter chiggers.
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Decorating rules can be helpful guidelines, but adhering too strictly to conventional wisdom can seriously cramp your style.
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Owners with at least 25 vehicles can get the special stickers and skip adhering registration tags on the plates each year, as the rest of us have to.
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No other airline has plans to compete with the carrier, sticking instead to traditional one-stop gateways, like Dubai, Los Angeles, or Singapore.
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Those who cannot twerk usually fall back on sticking their tongues down each other’s throats, because this is Love Island, after all.
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But now, entry-level professionals are clinging to their childhood bedrooms and pillaging their family fridges as more are extending their stay than ever before.
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The debtor had jumped onto the running board of Pitman’s moving rig and was clinging to the driver’s door.
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“Hewing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hewing. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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