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[hyoo, yoo] / hju, ju /


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These automated strategies routinely buy and sell large quantities of stocks over the course of the year to hew to an index, and any influx of cash into the account will very quickly be redeployed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The deals appear to closely hew to the same lines as the earlier deals with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, which were seen as significant wins for the industry.

From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025

With changes to tax law, the Dec. 31 deadline has become almost arbitrary, yet people still hew to old habits.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 19, 2025

They dig deep and meandering tunnels - and hew out rocks to sell to mostly Chinese buyers, who then extract copper.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Instead, it looks like a human trying to hew a life and a belief out of nothing but dead wood—which is, in its own way, heroic.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

In the third volume of her Diaspora Quartet, Lee follows the Koh family from Australia to Korea to the United States as their paterfamilias John hews to his strong inner compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Superbloom” is a strong record whose failings have mostly to do with context, specifically how closely the album hews to its two predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

It isn’t yet clear how close that opinion hews to Selig’s own.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

The first act hews to the documentary in a flatly straightforward fashion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

The sculptor takes the blackened marble block and hews it into a form of beauty.

From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller

Indeed, Walker’s Bitcoin origin story hewed closely to a common template in the Bitcoin community.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Other results hewed closer to recent polling of the race.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

A less-frequent Gallup survey specifically about whether the stock market will rise in the next six months hewed to the same pattern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Selfies were becoming more prevalent as social media grew, and standards of beauty hewed close to celebrity Kim Kardashian’s looks, especially in regards to eye makeup and products used for face contouring.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke, drawing the bitter edge swiftly across a ladder of close-strung cords, and at once springing away.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Video released by the US Justice Department shows apparently well-made concrete steps leading into the tunnel, which appears to be hewn from rock and with a concrete floor.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

But when he got it right, his lyrics had an aphoristic directness that made them seem more hewn than written.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Its throwing arm, currently at 12 o’clock, weighs 360 pounds and is not hewn or sanded; knots are visible in the wood.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

This same water, reprocessed as waste, is dumped into hewn ice caverns.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

The floor was stone blocks fitted together, and the walls were a different type of hewn stone, the huge blocks so solid, she couldn’t imagine anything knocking them down.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Though far from being a “gritty” period drama, “Little House” does attempt to capture the realities and complexities of its place and time, while still hewing to Wilder’s original themes of resilience, hope and family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Bach composed best by hewing to a strict format.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

They point out that the core rate has been more stable than headline PCE inflation, hewing closely to a range of 2.8% to 3% in the past two years.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

But being a politician occasionally requires actual leadership, which means working to persuade voters of the merits of a position, rather than reflexively hewing to public opinion at any given moment.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Still life was a grim struggle, hewing the way through solid forests to reach the new home, cutting the trees to build the log cabin, patiently raising the first crop of corn.

From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy


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