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jigsaw

[jig-saw] / ˈdʒɪgˌsɔ /


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I often ask an audience: what is the most important piece of a jigsaw puzzle?

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

“Putting together a multicamera episode is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle — I just try to make it look as seamless as possible,” says Chris Poulos, the editor of “The Neighborhood.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Could Mount be final piece in Man Utd midfield jigsaw?

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

This latest study, published in the journal European Urology, is another key piece of the jigsaw, which could help lead to a national prostate cancer screening programme in years to come.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

They plopped the squares down over the white-sugar sand, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

In the most recent example, Time magazine this week launched Time Games, featuring online word puzzles and jigsaws made from its iconic magazine covers.

From Barron's May 16, 2026

It’s trying to go through these moral jigsaws to kind of justify certain things to themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2024

The company’s got jigsaws with sound effects, too, to delight the littlest puzzlers.

From Seattle Times Nov. 15, 2022

He’s mastered an avuncular, jokey, at times corny tone: Heading to Spain for the jigsaw contest, he quips that “speed-solving jigsaws sounded weird and paradoxical, like a yoga tournament or a napping derby.”

From Washington Post Apr. 29, 2022

More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet.

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

What’s left of the jigsawed and taped-up pages might not provide the thoroughgoing record of his presidency that the law demands, but they are a wrenching testament to his penchant for wanton destruction.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2022

These constant shifts of scene can be whiplash-inducing, and, at times, the chapters can feel jigsawed together — patchworks of examples undergirding premises stretched thin by all they are forced to contain.

From Washington Post Dec. 23, 2020

Wachtendonk said that folks will usually ask of the flying machines, jigsawed together with found objects, rotisserie motors and leftover rivets, embellished with metal lanterns, tiny wheels and painted wings.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2019

Ochoa has just opened his second restaurant, Salazar, a Sonora-style barbecue place jigsawed into the former mechanic’s shop for which it’s named.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2016

She picked it up and turned back the jigsawed lid.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

She spends her days jigsawing state and federal funding sources for new water systems, and answering residents’ frequent calls about when they’ll be connected.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Then, staffers from the White House Office of Records Management were generally responsible for jigsawing the documents back together, using clear tape.

From Washington Post Feb. 5, 2022

South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.5% to 3,205.83 after jigsawing earlier in the day.

From Seattle Times Aug. 11, 2021

Though they had some wiggle room, it still took an entire summer of jigsawing to get it to work at Moravian and Swain, for example, school leaders said.

From Washington Times Mar. 20, 2021

This allowed them to continue jigsawing dislocated fragments to put their own ideas into Nietzsche’s mouth.

From The Guardian Oct. 6, 2018




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