sculptured

past tense of sculpture
as in carved
to create a three-dimensional representation of (something) using solid material the artist used a hammer and chisel to sculpture the horse out of ice

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  • But that one course, Sugarloaf Golf Club, is also one of the few publics in the Northeast to have made Golf Digest’s Top 100, a Robert Trent Jones II classic with drop dead views on nearly every hole, carved from a gorgeous wilderness teeming with moose and other wildlife.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Expanding on sounds pioneered by his Memphis predecessors, such as Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG, Tay Keith carved his own lane.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 20 June 2026
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  • To make this music, Atkinson sculpted Fender Rhodes piano and electronics melodies in a process akin to early musique concrète, a technique in which composers took fragments of magnetic tape and spliced them together.
    Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
  • Between the moody, sculpted florals and the tiger print, this one packs a punch.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 26 June 2026
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“Sculptured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sculptured. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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