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Recent Examples of Synonyms for notched
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After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025 -
With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering.—
Julie Loffredi,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Toklomati doubled the lead in the 47th minute when Inter Miami’s defense was carved open with incisive passing.—
Franco Panizo,
Miami Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
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The roughly 20,000 Rohingya people that the United Nations refugee office estimates are currently in India have carved out a precarious existence.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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His face is so meticulously chiseled.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sculptor Roman Villarreal, whose portfolio includes works on Chicago’s South Side and at Steelworkers Park, chiseled the turtles out of 15,00-pound chunks of limestone.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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The sample, called Sapphire Canyon, was collected by the Perseverance rover from rocky outcrops on the edges of the Neretva Vallis river valley, a region sculpted by water that once flowed into Jezero Crater more than 3 billion years ago.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Viral posts present them as a lost civilization’s handiwork; geologists call them nunataks, mountain summits standing above the ice, and, in some cases, glacial horns whose sharp faces were sculpted by erosion.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Notched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notched. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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