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chisel

[chiz-uhl] / ˈtʃɪz əl /
NOUN
shaping tool
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“I had to put the table upside down and use a chisel and grinder to remove as much material as I could. It took us three tries to get the table right.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

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

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

He slices the canvas with my chisel, ruining it with a long, ripping sound that makes the entire class gasp.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

"We used big chisels on the end of broom handles. A bit like gardening hoes. You use those to stab at it and shave stuff way," explained Roche.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2026

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

But when he has more time, he prefers snorkeling in riverbeds where he chisels into bedrock.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 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

He handed him different old rasps and augers and chisels and files and mallets he’d brought over from England.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Through years of extraordinary political upheaval, the sound engineer at No. 10 Downing Street has served as a chiseled omen of great change.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

It is an artifact set in concrete, chiseled away to reveal a replica of the Flatiron Building in New York City.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 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

“I could be dead right now,” said Nicholas, his chiseled features weary, water welling in his eyes.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

What counts as good looking is narrowly defined: chiselled facial features and visible muscles are non-negotiables.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2026

He shared a picture that he claimed was of himself showing his chiselled abs on the beach and claimed to be financially secure.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2026

"But I think I'd remember if you'd done something odd," reassures Archer, all chiselled good looks and friendly bonhomie.

From BBC May 8, 2025

He had a licence to charm on screen, with his sultry voice and suave, chiselled good looks.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2024

His face was chiselled and bronze, his eyes black as basalt, his curly dark hair glistening with oil.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

"Evolution is chiseling a sculpture, not constructing a building," Gokcumen said.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

“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

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

Disheartened, I made my way out into the workshop and was greeted by the sounds of a hundred hands busily chiseling wood, chipping stone, and hammering metal.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

He has also worked relentlessly over a decade to achieve his goal, losing weight, chiselling his body into extreme aerodynamic proportions.

From The Guardian Jul. 21, 2012

Its margin was in outline a bold pear-shaped curve, that also curved upon itself, formed by an immense chiselling of the fundamental rock.

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




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