notching

verb

present participle of notch
as in carving

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  1. carving
  2. grooving
  3. chiseling
  4. chasing
  5. tracing
  6. sculpting
  7. scoring
Verb
  • Starting out, Firstman didn’t dare dream of ascending the stairs to the Grand Palais or carving a path to the Oscars stage.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
  • After spending much of the year carving out a broad rounded base, shares established resistance around $130-$135 before a smaller rounded handle formed in September and October.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of carving
Verb
  • Michael Goessling remembers being eight years old and grooving to The Doobie Brothers.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • On Labor Day 2025, Zohran Kwame Mamdani enjoyed Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Parade, grooving on various floats as an assemblyman representing Astoria, Queens.
    — Reshma B, VIBE.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of grooving
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  • Visions, enhanced with shadows and emotion, came to life on marble through sketching the stone and chiseling and carving entirely by hand.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 1 May 2026
Definition of chiseling
Verb
  • In the mid-2010s, publications poured money into burgeoning social media video efforts, chasing the promise of reaching larger audiences and opening new lines of revenue.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2026
  • But chasing those most likely to gamble often means chasing addicts.
    — New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of chasing
Verb
  • That means visibility across merchandising, supply chain, operations, and finance, identifying priority actions when performance changes, and tracing the decisions behind each recommendation.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Federal health officials have deployed $100 million in resources to states to help with vaccination and tracing efforts.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of tracing
Verb
  • But beyond the virality of gua sha face tools, often used to define facial features by promoting lymphatic drainage and blood flow, is a new massage cream that comes with its very own sculpting applicator.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026
  • From sculpting facial massages to body brushes and compression boots, there are seemingly endless ways to coax away puffiness and encourage a more contoured appearance.
    — Marie Bladt, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of sculpting
Verb
  • Carson Hansen ran for 119 on 14 carries, scoring a 12-yard touchdown in the first quarter and adding a key 36-yard run to keep Penn State's final drive going.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Former Sounders midfielder Nico Lodeiro holds the record for a regular-season finale, scoring in 24 seconds for Seattle in 2022.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of scoring
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