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knapped

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past tense of knap

as in carved

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Viewed as a possible 2028 presidential contender, Murphy has carved out a position as a foreign policy leader and champion of aggressive executive branch oversight.

— Eric McDaniel, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
Its centerpiece was an enormous round stone, which had been carved to look like an Aztec-style skull.

— Téa Obreht, New Yorker, 1 Nov. 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

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His case — and, importantly, his face — were featured earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con International, where attendees watched as forensic artist Joe Mullins sculpted a plaster reconstruction of the youth’s face.

— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Bushes and shrubs are sculpted and arranged vegetation with individual leaves clearly placed, no longer polygonal painted with plant patterns.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026

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People who hewed close to the DASH diet had a lower risk of heart failure.

— Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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

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Jovany Barragan’s second field goal — a 35-yarder on an untimed down — cut Serra’s deficit to 21-6 at halftime.

— Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
The verdict came just three days after regulators seized Ueno Bank, cutting nearly 3 million customers off from their savings and bank cards and setting off a political crisis.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026

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