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saw

[saw] / sɔ /


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The company saw a 7.2% rise in same-store sales, or those at established locations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Most critics saw a turning point in Mr. Seger’s career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

"What we know is that offshore workers are using weight-loss jabs regardless of the policies. Last year we saw in some cases 60% of workers turning up with weight-loss jabs," he told BBC Scotland News.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

This month, he posted a new video backing the billionaire tax, noting that the Proposition 40 campaign saw his earlier post and then paid him to make content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Let’s start over from the top, La. You saw this boy from behind, so you don’t know what his face looks like?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

There’s no guarantee the Chargers will pass through the gate of golden opportunity, but this 2-0 team has sawed the lock off the latch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025

Goldie's mate, Regina, had her own adventure when she was snatched the following February by student pranksters at Manchester University who sawed through a padlock to access the cage.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025

We sawed pine planks while the big blue horseflies a privy draws plagued us bad.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Getting them entry into chopping and sawing block events as well took time, LaSalle explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

That’s like sawing the magician in half and never putting them back together again.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The high-pitched sound of an angle grinder sawing through glass echoed through the hall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Unless Naomi is pulling the largest number of bunnies out of a hat or sawing the biggest number of people in half.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

It had been in my family for three generations — an upright of quarter sawn oak that probably hadn’t been properly tuned for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

He said his lifelong love affair with theatre stemmed in part from seeing his sister being sawn in half as a conjuror's assistant at a local music hall.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024

The Customs Department said in a statement it discovered the contraband hidden behind sawn timber following checks on July 10 on a ship coming from Africa.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022

The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke


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