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knapped

verb

past tense of knap

as in carved

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The career Bowen ultimately carved out for himself is one that most artists never attain.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2026
Pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change have carved deeply into the western monarch population.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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There’s an original and insightful feature-length documentary that could have been chiseled out from under all the generic padding here.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026
In this square was a century-old courthouse, and surrounding that, a Woolworth’s, department stores and mining company offices whose names are still chiseled into stone edifices.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of chiseled

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Stop motion is such a deliberate practice, where every wrinkle is quite literally sculpted.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Wrapped in Honduran mahogany and sculpted directly into the cliffside, the 14,400-square-foot property offers a total of eight bedrooms and 15 bathrooms across a main home and guesthouse.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of sculpted

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The runway collection in general hewed more toward the younger crowd with pedal pushers and mini-shifts that many 80-year-olds would have worn in their youths.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are examples of authors who hewed closely to writers who had come before them.

— Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of hewed

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In a pouch-cell demonstration, the battery continued powering an LED even after being folded and cut.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
At least 15 of the 53 donors who gave money this month had no history of state-level political contributions, and many more hadn’t cut checks in at least a decade.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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