notched

past tense of notch

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Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Keep carved jack-o-lanterns in a cool, shady spot.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • For the actress, who has carved out her own corner in sci-fi with the help of Alien, joining the cast was about the strength of the story and not necessarily because of her genre appreciation.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Working on these inward-looking songs has allowed Teasdale and Chambers to feel less hemmed in by their origin story, one that was drawn early on by the press and then chiseled in stone.
    Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Vincent Kompany and his staff have chiselled a perfect role for him, with Diaz contributing not only on an individual basis, but in a way that really accentuates Bayern’s other attacking virtues.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Black dresses dominated, capes swept, corsets sculpted, and fashion once again stirred the soul.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • So far this year, artists have painted murals that include two of the city's basketball icons and sculpted a shining celebration of water's life-giving properties.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Notched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notched. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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