saw
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“Our seats were supposed to decline. Instead, Agentforce sales, service and Slack all saw year-over-year growth,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said on the earnings call.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Those who could, got out," he said, adding that he saw the captain among the first to abandon ship "without organising anything".
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The brain regions most harmed by air pollution are the ones that control mental flexibility and executive function, the same domains in which we saw improvements in our study.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Villanueva told the courtroom he used to “gun it” whenever he saw a light turn yellow, but after the crash that took his nephew’s life, he’s changed his driving habits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“I have to agree with your friend, Lexie. I didn’t use that word when I saw you last, because I didn’t think you were ready to hear it. That you were ready to accept that.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
But it also means that the horns grow back and need to be sawed off repeatedly.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
In director Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic fable Frankenstein, Elordi glows an undead white as the monster, his body a patchwork of human parts sawed off of Crimean War corpses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
First, it was just a limb sawed from a tree at a North Figueroa Street intersection on April 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
He grabbed for the gutter just as the sharp newly-broken stone sawed through the rope.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
My great uncle started sawing it in 1882, and it just fell yesterday!”
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
A statue of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, and a Queen Victoria monument was doused in red paint.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
He pointed out the painting had been "roughly sawn to get it into a frame", which the owner said his mother had done to make it fit.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
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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