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KYIV, Ukraine—It was late January, and an elite Ukrainian team grabbed their tools for a special operation critical to their country’s resistance against Russia: an underwater drone, a hammer and a chisel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

“CMS is continuing to chisel away at higher spending associated with coding intensity,” says Tricia Neuman, executive director for the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a health policy nonprofit.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Nonato laid his chisel against the mortar and gingerly began to tap the top of the tool with a hammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

Finally, he was able to chisel out the embedded trunk handle to open it, clambering in and driving his Model Y Long Range S.U.V. five miles to the closet supercharging station.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

My father flakes off some of the dark shell with his chisel, revealing blond wood underneath.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

One promising option is tungsten carbide, an Earth-abundant material already widely used in industrial machinery, cutting tools, and chisels.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2026

The marks of chisels and other hand tools are prominent across all their surfaces, which appear sleek from a distance, making for an exciting juxtaposition between material and method.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

He saw others who wanted to take a piece of it, who’d come to the metaphorical mountain with chisels in hand.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024

Back at Cooper’s dino-shop, work began to clean and reassemble the stegosaurus, with equipment including sand-blasting jets, pneumatic chisels and powerful microscopes.

From BBC ● May 30, 2024

Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

He continues by "mewing," a TikTok trend where people suck in their cheeks and point a finger at their jawline to emphasize their chiseled features.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

When you have an identity that is so clear, so chiseled, you are that way forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Larry’s the pragmatic choice, but Luke is the romantic one, down to his handsome, chiseled features right out of a supermarket paperback.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025

He took out his knife and chiseled at it with care.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

But Marvin's confident it's helping him achieve the appearance he desires - a hollow-cheeked, chiselled profile with sharp, pointed eyes and strong jawline.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

The rest of the pack includes influencer-turned-pop star Addison Rae, influencer-turned-pop star Alex Warren, frenetic girl group Katseye, chiselled rock star Sombr and LA indie outfit The Marías.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

Lithe, with abs chiselled from granite and blond in his hair, he looked like WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes.

From BBC ● May 12, 2024

A cat that was chiselled out from between two walls by firefighters appeared more angered than relieved after its rescue.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2024

‘There’s no such thing as “safe” any more,’ she said, her words chiselled into arrows by her anger.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

“Looksmaxxing” has men injecting themselves with unregulated peptides and hammering their jawlines, chiseling their own bone structure like Michelangelo with a front-facing camera.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Zhong likens this to a sculptor chiseling away at marble until the final form emerges.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

And, after a few years toying around with a spread offense, Harbaugh went back to his roots, chiseling a dominant running attack behind a grisly offensive line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

By reducing the cost of chiseling, Springut reasons, architects can once again embrace the decorative flourishes of carved stone.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2023

He stops to brush around a dark spot with his finger, chiseling around its perimeter until a rock comes loose.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Somewhere in the city, somebody is chiselling away at a statue of the 74-year-old.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

However, he said a local architect had "spotted its significance and got permission to save the artwork, spending a day chiselling it off the wall".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022

We entered frosty courts by a secret hatchway and waved wooden racquets in majestic arcs, a ceremony akin to polar explorers chiselling out ice caves.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016

In chiselling the tip, the surgeon had removed too much of the lower nose, which left me feeling as though part of my face was missing.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2015

There was a new glory in the gardens around me, a finer flashing of fountains in the sunlight, and a bolder chiselling of palaces and temples.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw