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Recent Examples of sculpted
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
And no one is more laide jolie, more sculpted and faultless, more wooden and sexless, than the paradoxical figure who goes by the name of Clavicular.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
The trunk of the yew will be left in place and turned into a bench sculpted by a local artist, while the wood will be cured and used in the future to create champion yew products.
—Siafa Lewis, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
The design and details impressed archaeologists, but the feature that caught their attention was the presence of four sculpted toads placed around the drumhead, Arkeonews explained.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
And no one is more laide jolie, more sculpted and faultless, more wooden and sexless, than the paradoxical figure who goes by the name of Clavicular.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
Director Gay has sculpted a staging that is faithful to a more leisurely 19th-century storytelling style, yet satisfies modern audiences’ constant craving for stimulation.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
The trunk of the yew will be left in place and turned into a bench sculpted by a local artist, while the wood will be cured and used in the future to create champion yew products.
—Siafa Lewis, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sculpted
Adjective
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In its system card for Claude Mythos, for instance, Anthropicresearchers noted that the powerful AI exhibited a strange fondness for the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
30 Apr. 2026
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To fix that, Fever removed it and replaced it with a motor from a powerful electric dirt bike.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Anika Reed Naomi Osaka gave a wink to the body with her look, a sultry and sparkling red dress with anatomical features carved out in crystals.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
5 May 2026
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Most of these caves were carved out during the medieval era.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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Theron, meanwhile, hurls herself into the sinewy action sequences that have increasingly been her home turf over the past two decades, flinging herself down hills and into rivers and navigating some precarious rock-climbing terrain.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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That brisk storytelling economy is a good fit for Theron’s own terse, sinewy performance style.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Then this kid who was my height but much more muscular appeared in the backstop.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Eight muscular feet tall, it is carved from cork and then selectively painted—a distant echo of tribal markings.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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The hit was outsourced to a hulking Estonian assassin, Imre (the Butcher) Arakas, who arrived at Dublin Airport on April 3, 2017, and was immediately tailed by officers from the An Garda Síochána’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, who arrested him the next day.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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Also known as Mount Tacoma, this hulking stratovolcano is the tallest mountain in the state and a beloved fixture of the Seattle-Tacoma skyline.—
Zoe Baillargeon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Musgraves and Lambert are two of the most important figures in country music in the 21st century, so the pairing would have been historic even without the beefy backstory.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
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There are about as many puts trading as calls, but options traders are paying beefier premiums in upside calls, with total call premiums nearing $100M versus $50M in puts, according to data compiled by SpotGamma.—
Oliver Renick,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In Southern California, the brawny bees are active from February through October, the Wisconsin company said.—
Sarah Linn
April 24,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Offerman, once again, shows his versatility; his Jinx is both brawny and vulnerable.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Wall Street analysts argue Niccol is earning his hefty compensation package.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
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Those are hefty spreads for Game 7s.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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“Sculpted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sculpted. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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